The power to switch minds with other beings.
Also Called
- Body Hopping/Swap/Switching
- 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 mind 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 limited Hive Mind.
Associations
Limitations
- 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 cannot use targets memories or change them.
- Users of Indomitable Will, Strong Heart and/or Psychic Shield are either immune or highly resistant.
- May lose powers after minds are switched.
- Cannot work against Divided Mind since the user can only take over one mind at a time.
Known Users
See Also: Body Snatcher, Grand Theft Me and Body Surf.
- FATE/Lynx (Chrono Cross)
- Mao (Darker Than Black); only with animals
- Manaphy/Phione (Pokémon); via Heart Swap
- Doctor Doom (Marvel)
- She-Hulk (Marvel)
- Rachel Summers (Marvel Comics)
- Manchester Black (DC Comics)
- Baby Land God (Dog Days)
- Captain Ginyu (Dragon Ball Z)
- Zamasu (Dragon Ball Super)
- Puppeteer (Top Cow's Freshmen)
- Jen (MisFits)
- Trafalgar D. Water Law (One Piece), via the Ope Ope no Mi
- Orb of Caldia (Marchen Awakens Romance)
- Charmcaster (Ben 10); using a spell
- Cambiador (Combo Ninos)
- Sam Beckett (Quantum Leap)
- Patrick VanDusen (Super Smash Stadium)
- Experiment 355 "Swapper" (Lilo & Stitch)
- Switcheroo (Stitch!)
- Tren Krom (BIONICLE)
- Astaroth (666 Satan/O-Parts Hunter)
- Rao Vantika (Star trek)
- Ambar (Aliados)
- Ellen (The Witch's house)
- Haruto Tokishima (Kakumeiki Valvrave)
- Saki Rukino (Kakumeiki Valvrave)
- The Great Race of Yith (H.P. Lovecraft's works)
- Urara Shiraishi (Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches); via kiss
- Jumpers (Wild Cards)
- Wizards (Wizards of Waverly Place); via the Body-Switching Spell
- Silver Chariot Requiem (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Vento Aureo)
- Rahab Barisol (The Evillious Chronicles)
- Levia (The Evillious Chronicles)
- Eve Moonlit (The Evillious Chronicles)
- Elluka Clockworker (The Evillious Chronicles)
- Ma (The Evillious Chronicles)
- Felonious Hexx (Robotboy)
Known Objects
- Draconian Katra (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Enchanted Mirror (Jake Long: American Dragon)
- Changeling Spell (Fairy Tail)
- Electron Carpet (Gravity Falls)
- Mind scrambler (Lloyd in Space)
Gallery
Sam (Quantum Leap) Inhabits the lives of targets in the past
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.
Ginyu (Dragon Ball Z) after his mind was switched with Goku
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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
Karma (Marvel Comics)
Marcus Roscoe (Angel) swapping bodies with Angel.
Experiment 355 "Swapper" (Lilo & Stitch)
Switcheroo (Stitch!) switching Stitch and Taro's minds.
After Phantom and Danna killed each other, Orb (Marchen Awakens Romance) took control of Danna's body by switching Danna's soul into Phantom’s ÄRM, Babbo.