Psychosomatic Illusion

Psychosomatic Illusion
Regan Wyngarde/Lady Mastermind (Marvel Comics) can create illusions realistic enough to cause pain and injury.
Power/Ability to:	Cast 'real' illusions capable of physically affecting the target.

"In sadder news, the man who held the Guinness World Record for "Most Drugs Ever Done by a Single Human Being" died today; he was attacked by a pack of wild dogs he thought he saw."

― Tom Tucker (Family Guy)

"I don't know if he's real or not, but he's real to Robin, and that's all that matters. The stress on his brain is destroying his body. Robin truly believes he's fighting Slade...and Slade is winning."

― Raven (Teen Titans, "Haunted")

"A weapon that takes control of people's visual and depth perception to feed false information to the brain, creating a new reality for them. Like a dream so real, if you bump yourself in it, your sleeping self will bruise? It's hard to believe."

― Miles "Tails" Prower describing the Phantom Ruby (Sonic Forces)

The power to create illusions capable of causing physical effects on the target. Variation of Illusion Manipulation.

Also Called

• Physical/Tangible Hallucination/Illusion

Capabilities

The user can create illusions powerful enough to cause physical effects (cuts, bruises, burns, etc.) to appear on the target. Such illusions can even be realistic enough to interact physically with and affect the surrounding environment as well as their target.

Applications

• Bliss & Horror Inducement
  • Pain Inducement
• Damage Inducement
  • Wound Inducement
• Death Illusion
  • Death Inducement
• Fear Inducement
  • Paralysis Inducement
• Hallucination Solidification
• Imagination Manifestation
• Insanity Inducement
• Psychic Torture

Associations

• Construct Creation
  • Astral Constructs
  • Illusion Constructs
  • Imaginary Constructs
  • Psychic Constructs
  • Telekinetic Constructs
  • Willpower Constructs
• Corporealization
• Illusion Manipulation
  • Absolute Illusion
  • Empathic Illusions
  • Living Illusion Creation
  • Telepathic Illusions
• Mental Projection
• Sense Manipulation
• Solidification
  • Astral Solidification
  • Emotional Solidification
  • Hallucination Solidification
  • Imagination Solidification
  • Psychic Energy Solidification
  • Telekinetic Solidification
• Thought Projection
  • Emotion Projection
  • Memory Projection
• Vertigo Inducement

Limitations

• May require a medium to focus their powers.
• If not careful, the user may end up hurting themselves or unintended targets or their allies.
• May depend on the target possessing an impressionable psyche as the baseline for the psychosomatic effect.
• Illusion Negation

Known Users

See Also: Your Mind Makes It Real.

• Asura Saeki "The Witch of the West" (Area D)
• Bashir Malik/Psych (Arrowverse/The Flash)
• Rōjūrō 'Rose' Ōtoribashi (Bleach); via Kinshara Butōdan
• Jeff the Killer (Creepypasta)
• Jane the Killer (black smoke that allows her to shapeshift) (Creepypasta)
• Dream/Morpheus (DC/Vertigo Comics)
• Terrorblade (DoTA 2)
• Morpheus (Extreme Ghostbusters); through the target's dreams
• Users of the Kotodama (Flame of Recca); through the user's voice
• Tadashi Usobuki (Impossibility Defense)
• Viper (Katekyō Hitman Reborn!)
• Mukuro Rokudo (Katekyō Hitman Reborn!)
• Chrome Dokuro (Katekyō Hitman Reborn!)
• Flan (Katekyō Hitman Reborn!)
• Mind Guardian (Legacy of Kain)
• Danielle "Dani" Moonstar/Mirage (Marvel Comics)
• Regan Wyngarde/Lady Mastermind (Marvel Comics)
• Shinnok (Mortal Kombat)
• Yakumo Kurama (Naruto)
• Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street); through the target's dreams
• Hisuian Zorua/Zoroark (Pokémon); implied via the Pokédex
• Neopolitan (RWBY); after her Semblance evolved
• The Curious Cat (RWBY); via Neo’s semblance while possessing her
• Wang Ta-ren (Sakigake Otokojuku)
• Groundskeeper Willie (The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror VI)
• It/Pennywise/Deadlights (Stephen King’s It)
• Allan Bennett (Toaru Majutsu no Index); via Spiritual Tripping
• Aleister Crowley (Toaru Majutsu no Index); via Spiritual Tripping
• Reisen Udongein Inaba (Touhou Project)
• Liliyn Li Reysis Redrose (User of Golden Words)
• Penalty Game users (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
• Kanchomé (Zatch Bell!)

Known Objects

• Markers (Dead Space)
• Phantom Ruby (Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Krieger Wave Converter (Star Trek: TNG)

Gallery

Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi (Bleach) using his Kinshara Butōdan to create illusions so powerful, that the victim suffer whatever they imagine in reality...

...such as nearly drowning Mask with his Sea Drift melody...

...or physically burning him with Prometheus.

Tadashi Usobuki (Impossibility Defense) uses this to lethal effects, leaving no evidence of him committing murder.

Pegasus J. Crawford (Yu-Gi-Oh) inflicted a Penalty Game - Hand and Gun - onto Keith for cheating, forcing him to shoot himself in an illusion, which nevertheless, truly killed Keith.

Yakumo Kurama (Naruto) was born with a powerful Genjutsu ability to literally convince the victim's brain to physically reflect anything that happens to the victim within the Genjutsu, to their body, making it possible for her to kill her opponents with her illusions.

Taught by his mentor Allan Bennett, Aleister Crowley (Toaru Majutsu no Index) is a skilled in using Spiritual Tripping being able to instill an image with details which would be normally be impossible to tell from a simple gesture, even if the image is that of something that the target has never seen before. He is capable of manifesting illusionary weapons powerful enough to parry Kanzaki Kaori and Knight Leader.

Any injuries Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street series) gives to someone in their dreams affects their body in the real world.

Groundskeeper Willie (The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror VI)