Mental Manipulation

The power to manipulate thoughts, mindsets, and upper brain functions of others. Sub-power of Telepathy.

Also Called

Cerebral Control
Cerebrokinesis
Mental Alteration/Control
Mentokinesis
Mind Alteration/Control

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, sway sensations to induce altered perception, bestow mental disorders or break down mental barriers.

Applications

Techniques

Bioacoustic Disruption or Bio-Acoustic Disruption: To cause a subject's brain falter in communication, causing 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 Breakdown: To cause psychological breakdowns and mental collapse.
Mental Scramble: To scramble someone's mind.
Mind Imprisonment: To imprison the users in their minds.
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 backwards.
Personality Alteration: To partially or 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

Limitations

Does not work on mindless beings (corpses, animated objects, robots, etc.).
May be limited to a certain range to work, including touch only.
May be limited to certain number of targets at a time.
Users of Psychic Shield are either immune or highly resistant.

Known Users

Miya Shiba (Irregular at Magic High School)
Mandarin (Marvel Comics)
Jean Grey/Phoenix (Marvel Comics)
Emma Frost (Marvel Comics)
Charles Xavier (Marvel Comics)
Stepford Cuckoos (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 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)
Potentially any Wizard or Witch (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 HumanSyfy)
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

Known Objects

Millennium Rod (Yu-Gi-Oh!)