Memory Manipulation

The power to **manipulate memories**. Sub-power of Mental Manipulation. Not to be confused with Past Manipulation.

## Also Called

* Memory Alteration
* Memory Control
* Mnemokinesis

## Capabilities

User can control memories of oneself and others, allowing them to modify, fabricate, suppress, influence, repair, restore, erase, detect, and view them. They can change memories to confuse, or wipe away certain memories to cause amnesia, discern and provoke nostalgia, and enter the victim into a psychic vision, replaying their memory.

## Applications

* **Adoptive Muscle Memory**: Replicate any movement that you have memorized.
* **Enhanced Memory/Panmnesia**: Instantly memorize any information that you have learned.
	+ **Instructive Muscle Memory**: Perfectly mimic movements via indirect observation.
* **Genetic Memory**: Access the memories of one's genetic relatives or hereditary predecessors.
* **Knowledge Projection**: Project your memories onto others to give them knowledge.
* **Memory Absorption**: Steal the memories of others.
	+ **Memory Vampirism**: Feed off of others' memories.
* **Memory Attacks**: Use memories to various attacks.
* **Memory Communication**: Communicate with or through memory.
* **Memory Destruction**: Destroy memories from yourself or others.
* **Memory Erasure**: Erase memories from yourself or others.
	+ **Amnesia**: Selectively erase any of your unwanted memories.
	+ **Manual Reset**: Dump all previous memories so that one may start fresh.
	+ **Perceptive Amnesia**: Cause others to forget the user after looking away from them.
	+ **Psychic Disguise**: Remove yourself from the memories of others.
* **Memory Generation**: Generate existing or new memories from scratch.
* **Memory Implantation**: Implant memories into the minds of others, which could either be pre-existing memories from someone else, or false memories created by the user.
	+ **Paramnesia**: Distort or erase the memories of yourself or others, so that one can believe fantasies or lies without giving off cerebral implications of deception.
	+ **Presence Insertion**: Place oneself in memories of the target (and act as a loved one or old friend).
	+ **Presence Removal**: Remove oneself from the memories of the target.
	+ **Traumatize**: Implant twisted memories within others to drive them into insanity.
* **Memory Imprisonment**: Imprison others within their own memories or that of others, including the user’s.
* **Memory Interaction:** Interact with one's or others' memory.
* **Memory Loss Negation:** Negate memory loss.
* **Memory Limit Inducement**: Limit what the target remembers.
* **Memory Manifestation**: Manifest memories of oneself or others into reality.
* **Memory Overwrite**: Overwrite the memories of others.
* **Memory Projection**: Create a telepathic/holographic projection of someone's memories in order to be visually seen.
	+ **Lingering Memory**: Leave behind a memory of yourself to act as an afterimage.
* **Memory Reading**: Read the memories of others.
* **Memory Recall**: Cause targets to recall memories.
* **Memory Replication**: Copy the memories of others.
	+ **Knowledge Replication**: Copy the memories of others to acquire their knowledge.
* **Memory Restoration**: Recover damaged or old memories.
	+ **Déjà-vu**: Replay a specific memory.
	+ **Refresh**: Replay a subject’s recent optic sight.
* **Memory Suppression**: Lock unwanted memories in the mind until you wish to bring them back.
* **Memory Transferal**: Transfer memories between oneself and others.
* **Memory Vessel**: Store memories in something.
* **Memory World Creation**: Have or create a world of memories.
* **Racial Memory**: Access the memories of one's special brethren and utilize all the knowledge any particular clan or such possesses.

## Techniques

* Memory Combat
* Memory Overload
* Memory Physiology
* Memory Powers Bestowal
* Memory Reliving

## Variations

* Memory Condition
* Memory Embodiment
* Memory Magic
* Meta Memory Manipulation

## Associations

* Existent Information Manipulation
* History Embodiment
* Illusion Manipulation
* Memory Walking
* Mental Manipulation
* Nerve Manipulation
* Presence Removal
* Subconscious Manipulation

## Limitations

* Users of Psychic Shield (highly resistant) and Psychic Immunity (impervious).
* Users of Retrocognition can perceive the difference between history and memory.
* Users of Mental Regeneration, Mental Restoration and Mental Healing.
* Ineffective against those who are all-knowing.
* Cannot affect a user of Panmnesia.
* May lose control in times of stress or if rushed.
* May get overwhelmed with memories of others.
	+ May confuse your memories with someone else's.
* May be an accidental side effect of Life-Force Absorption.
* May have limited range, including touch only.
* May only be able to create/manipulate certain types of memories.
* May be temporary.
* Overuse and/or memories inconsistent with the environment, other memories, and/or other key elements may cause the target to suffer a nervous breakdown.
* May be difficult in discerning manipulated memories with normal ones.
* Memories must be well defined/convincing, or the target may suspect that it's not their own.
* May be ineffective/have a weakened effect on a target who has memory problems (e.g., short-term memory loss).

## Known Users

### Anime/Manga/Manhwa

* Users of the Founding Titan's power (*Attack on Titan*)
	+ Ymir Fritz
	+ Karl Fritz
	+ Eren Yeager
* Koku (*B: The Beginning*)
* Laica (*B: The Beginning*)
* Shūkurō Tsukishima (*Bleach*)
* Aleksandra I. Pokryshkin (*Strike Witches/Brave Witches*)
* Takuto Tatsunagi (*Cardfight!! Vanguard*)
* Control/Conquest Devil (*Chainsaw Man*)
	+ Makima
	+ Nayuta
* Pierrot (*Cheeky Angel*)
* Charles zi Britannia (*Code Geass*)
* Phantom (*Date A Live*)
* Mest Gryder (*Fairy Tail*)
* Weisslogia (*Fairy Tail*)
* Skiadrum (*Fairy Tail*)
* Hatori Sohma (*Fruits Basket*)
* Nanami Tomitsu (*Gokukoku No Brynhildr*)
* Sarue Mitsuki (*Hataraku Maou-sama*)
* Brownie (*Jewelpet*)
* Rohan Kishibe (*JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond Is Unbreakable*); via Heaven's Door
* Enrico Pucci (*JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6: Stone Ocean*); via Whitesnake
* Daiya Higashikata (*JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 8: JoJolion*); via California King Bed
* Warp/Kaiba (*Kaiba*)
* Regula (*Karakuri Dôji Ultimo*)
* Ragyo Kiryuin (*Kill la Kill*)
* Zofis (*Konjiki no Gash Bell!/Zatch Bell!*)
* Sucy Manbavaran (*Little Witch Academia*); via Memory Alteration Potion
* Aladdin (*Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic*)
* Charlotte Pudding (*One Piece*); via the Memo Memo no Mi
* Homura Akemi (*Puella Magi Madoka Magica*); as Homucifer, unknowingly when trapped in the Soul Gem Labyrinth.
* Gowther (*The Seven Deadly Sins*)
* Tomoe (*Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy*)
* Shokuhou Misaki (*Toaru Majutsu no Index*)
* Vetrix (*Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal*)
* Don Thousand (*Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal*)

### Comics/Cartoons

* Betta George (*Angel: After the Fall*)
* Eric Draven/The Crow (*Caliber Comics*)
* Martian Manhunter (*DC Comics*)
* Miss Martian (*DC Comics*)
* Raven (*DC Comics*)
* Doctor Stephen Strange (*Marvel Comics*)
* Forget-Me-Not (*Marvel Comics*); involuntarily
* Quentin Quire/Kid Omega (*Marvel Comics*)
* Mastermind (*Marvel Comics*)
* Professor X (*Marvel Comics*)
* God of Stories Loki (*Marvel Comics*)
* Psylocke (*Marvel Comics*)
* Rachel Summers/Marvel Girl/Phoenix (*Marvel Comics*)
* Nathan Summers/Cable (*Marvel Comics*)
* Nate Grey/X-Man (*Marvel Comics*)
* Ebony (*Sonic the Comic*)
* Laura Wilson/Persephone (*The Wicked + The Divine*)
* Anodites (*Ben 10 series*)
	+ Gwen Tennyson
* Kevin Levin (*Ben 10 series*); limited
* Proctor Servantis ("Ben 10 Omniverse")
* The Scyphozoa (*Code Lyoko*)
* Wooldoor Sockbat (*Drawn Together*)
* Alien Parasites (*Rick and Morty*)
* Kenny McCormick (*South Park*); involuntarily
* Lil' Pequena (*The Adventures Of Puss In Boots*)

### Literature

* Witches and Warlocks (*Beauchamp Family and Summer on East End series*); via spell casting.
	+ Bran Gardiner/Loki, God of Mischief
	+ Jean-Baptiste Mésomier/Muninn God of Memory
	+ Mardi Overbrook/Magdi, Goddess of Rage
* Blue Bloods/Vampires (*Blue Bloods series*)
	+ Jack Force
* Minoo (*Engelsfors*)
* The Stitchwraith (*Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights*)
* Wizards (*Harry Potter*); via Memory Charms
* Magnus Bane (*Shadowhunter Chronicles*)
* Catarina Loss (*Shadowhunter Chronicles*)
* Rezkin (*King's Dark Tidings*)

### Live Television/Movies

* Vampires (*Being Human*)
	+ Mitchell
* Willow Rosenberg (*Buffy the Vampire Slayer*)
* Cleaners (*Charmed*)
* Elders (*Charmed*)
* The Tribunal (*Charmed*)
* Time Lords (*Doctor Who*)
	+ The Doctor
* Sonya Simons (*The Gifted*)
* Damian (*Heroes*)
* René (*Heroes*)
* Ace Ukiyo/Kamen Rider Geats (*Kamen Rider Geats*)
* Mark Griffin (*Mutant X*)
* Emma DeLauro (*Mutant X*)
* Ship (*The Sarah Jane Adventures*)
* Vulcans (*Star Trek*); via the Vulcan Mind Meld
* Angels (*Supernatural*)
* Castiel (*Supernatural*)
* Adam Smith" (*Torchwood*)
* Sirens (*The Vampire Diaries*)
	+ Sybil
	+ Seline
* Space Cats (*Ultraman series*)
* Dr. Daniel Schreber (*Dark City*)
* The Strangers (*Dark City*)
* Grand Pabbie (*Frozen*)
* Emotions (*Inside Out*)
* Toothiana/The Tooth Fairy (*Rise of the Guardians*)
* The Matrix (*The Matrix*)
* Wipers (*Push*)
* Etelgar (*Ultraman Ginga S Movie Showdown! The 10 Ultra Brothers!*)
* Wolvermean (*Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel*) via Ninja Medallion

* Cate Dunlap (*The Boys: Gen V*)

### Video Games

* Cole (*Dragon Age: Inquisition*)
* Monika (*Doki Doki Literature Club!*)
* Sephiroth (*Final Fantasy VII franchise*)
* Herrscher of the Void (*Honkai Imapct 3rd*)
* Herrscher of the Corruption (*Honkai Impact 3rd*)
* Naminé (*Kingdom Hearts*)
* George Weissman (*The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky*)
* Kurome Ankokuboshi (*Megadimension Neptunia VII*)
* Mewtwo (*Pokémon*)
* Beheeyem (*Pokemon*)
* Nilin (*Remember Me*)
* Mnemosyne (*Valkyrie Crusade*)
* Monster 5 (*Karamari Hospital*)

### Web Animation/Comic/Original

* The Overvoid Lurk (*SCP Foundation*)
* The Ambassador of Alagadda (*SCP Foundation*)
* SCP-001 - The Database (S Andrew Swann's Proposal) (*SCP Foundation*)
* SCP-001 - The Gate Guardian (Dr Clef's Proposal) (*SCP Foundation*)
* SCP-0001 - Meta Ike's Proposal - The Solution (*SCP Foundation*)
* SCP-106 - The Old Man (*SCP Foundation*)
* SCP-1237 - The Epsilon Wave (*SCP Foundation*)
* SCP-1504 - Joe Schmo (*SCP Foundation*)
* SCP-2111 - If You Can Read This… (*SCP Foundation*)
* SCP-2032 - Father Time (*SCP Foundation*)
* SCP-2747 - As Below, So Above (*SCP Foundation*)
* SCP-3000 - Ananteshesha (*SCP Foundation*)
* SCP-3002 - Attempts to Assassinate Thought (*SCP Foundation*)
* SCP-3043 - Murphy Law in… Type 3043 — FOR MURDER! (*SCP Foundation*)
* SCP-3125 - The Escapee (*SCP Foundation*)
* SCP-3493 - The Great SCP Foundation Collaboration (*SCP Foundation*)
* SCP-3801 - Based on a True Story (*SCP FOundation*)
* SCP-3999 - I Am At The Center of Everything That Happens To Me (*SCP Foundation*)
* UIU File 2021-121: "Ramos" (*SCP Foundation*)
* Marion Wheeler (*SCP Foundation*)
* Slenderman (*Creepypasta*)

## Known Objects

* The Animus (*Assassin's Creed*)
* Fairy Godmother's Wand (*Cinderella*)
* Flashback Light (*Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony*)
* Doraemon's tools (*Doraemon*)
* Memory Alteration Potion (*Little Witch Academia*)
* The Cosmic Cube (*Marvel Comics*)
* Neuralyzer (*Men in Black*)
* Eidolon (*Vampirella*)
* The Amnesulet (*Yin Yang Yo!*)
* Millennium Rod (*Yu-Gi-Oh!*)
* Wolvermean's Ninja Medallion (*Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel*)

## Gallery

First King Coordinate.pngKarl Fritz (Attack on Titan) using the power of the Founding Titan to change the memories of countless of his subjects.Being-human-3mitchell.jpgThe seductive vampire Mitchell (Being Human)Jackforce.pngJack Force (Blue Bloods series) is one of the most powerful users of the Glom, a supernatural dimension that allows vampires to have full control over the thoughts, actions, and memories of others.Rohanoutfit.pngRohan Kishibe's Stand, *Heaven's Door* (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part IV: Diamonds are Unbreakable) can turn a person's memories into text on paper created from their skin, allowing him to take memories via ripping them out and literally write fabricated ones.Ragyo.jpgRagyo Kiryuin (Kill la Kill)Namine I D by TheKingdomHearts FC.jpgNamine (Kingdom Hearts) has power over the memories of Sora and those connected to him.Gowther (The Seven Deadly Sins).pngGowther (Nanatsu no Taizai) can use his power *Invasion* to manipulate the memories of others.Charlotte Pudding Memo Fruit.gifThanks to the power of the *Memo Memo no Mi*, Charlotte Pudding (One Piece) can manipulate memories of her target.Sephiroth FF7 Remake Profile.pngSephiroth (Final Fantasy VII series) is a powerful user of this ability, not only can he use memories to manipulate others...Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII) multi slash.gif...he can use them as one of his means to manipulate the cosmic life force of the Planet, the Lifestream...Sephiroth telekineis.gif...and even use his psychometric and ethereal powers to warp the entirety of the Singularity based on memories. Memories that are yet to be, and memories from other timelines.Nilin.jpgNilin (Remember Me) can steal and remix a person's memory.Mnemosyne H.pngMnemosyne (Valkyrie Crusade)Persephone The Wicked + The Divine.jpgLaura Wilson/Persephone (The Wicked + The Divine) is able to show past events to others.Cosmic Cube.jpgThe Cosmic Cube (Marvel Comics) can not only manipulate space and time...Remember by Winter Soldier.jpg...but also memory, like when Steve Rogers/Captain America used it to restore James "Bucky" Barnes/The Winter Soldier's memories...Operation Pleasant Hill.jpg...or when S.H.I.E.L.D. used Kobik ,the humanoid Cosmic Cube, to manipulate the memories of various imprisoned supervillains for their Pleasant Hill Operation.Doraemon-.jpgDoraemon (Doraemon) has several tools capable of memory manipulation...Memory Disk.gifDoraemon (Doraemon) using the "Memory Disk" to extract Suneo's memory of Nobita wetting his pants and implanting a false memory back to make him tell Shizuka that he wet his own pants from over-excitement.Marik Control Pandora's Memory.gifMarik Ishtar (Yu-Gi-Oh!) using the Millennium Rod to erase the memory of the key from Pandora's memory, causing him unable to see or feel it despite still physically holding onto it.Raven (DC Comics) barrage.gifRaven (Teen Titans)Dark City Strangers in pjs.pngThe Strangers (Dark City)Ace Ukiyo.pngAs the God of Creation, Ace Ukiyo (Kamen Rider Geats) has the ability to restore or remove the memories regarding their Rider activities from anyone he wishes without the usage of a *Rider Core ID*. Ace has stated that he has allowed all former players to retain their memories in the case he ever needs their assistance and knowledge.Wolvermean Steals the Ninja Rangers memories.gifWolvermean (*Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel*) leader of the Galactic Ninjas is known as the thief of memories because with his Ninja Medallion he has the power to remove memories from his enemies in the form of spheres and keep them in a small sack.
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