Mindwipe

## Overview

Mindwipe is a Decepticon Occultist, and a member of Scorponok's Headmaster division.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Occultism** - Mindwipe can utilize Occultism, the belief in or study of the action or influence of hidden wisdom and supernatural powers, allowing him to have foreknowledge about and behind the supernatural and how to perform them.
	+ **Necromancy** - Mindwipe has magical abilities that revolve around manipulating the dead, death, the death-force and/or souls for evil. He can also communicate with the deceased – either by summoning their spirit as an apparition or raising them bodily – for the purpose of divination, imparting the means to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge.
	+ **Rune Magic** - Mindwipe is capable of using rune magic, a form of magic that uses runestones, a type of raised stone with a runic inscription, as a conduit. Mindwipe's magical capabilities vary on the runestones he uses as each one is capable of a different type of magic, depending on the runes they are inscribed with.
	+ **Hypnotic Magic** - Mindwipe can utilize powerful spells to hypnotize targets, affecting or directly influencing his targets' minds to his commands.

* **Headmaster** - As a member of Scoronok's Headmaster division, Mindwipe was telepathically bonded with the Nebulan Vorath. This has caused him to inherit some of his Partner's abilities.
	+ **Telepathy** - Vorath can read/sense another person's thoughts, communicate with them mentally or affect, and otherwise interact with their minds/consciousness/thoughts without the aid of physical communication (noise or movement). Telepathy has three common abilities or categories; Telepathic Communication, which is the ability to transmit information from one mind to another, Telepathic Perception, which is the ability to receive information from another mind knowing an opponent’s moves and attacks, and Telepathic Manipulation, which is the ability to affect/influence/control/manipulate the minds of others.
		- **Psychic Torture** - Vorath can torture his targets mentally, spiritually and psychologically.
		- **Psychic Shielding** - Vorath is highly resistant to any/all mental intrusion, including psychic or empathic powers, Hypnosis, Mental Hallucination, deception, etc. Mind readers only “hear” static, while mind controllers are incapable of manipulating those shielded.
		- **Psychic Shadow** - Vorath is able to mask psychic presence and obscure the perceptions of psychic trackers, making any subject within his target radius appear "dark".
		- **Psychic Inhibitors** - Vorath can place psychic barriers in others' minds, allowing him to block things like abilities and memories. Once he has placed the blocks, the victims cannot access their abilities or memories, making them harmless.
		- **Telepathic Translation** - Vorath can translate languages by using telepathy, usually by linking minds with target the user is communicating with.

### Weaknesses

* Unlike true omnilingualism, Mindwipes Telepathic Translation power acts only as a live psychic translation device. He will not really know how to speak all languages. Others will hear him speaking the language they understand and the same goes for Mindwipe.
* Anti-Magic
* Robots and Mechanical Beings are immune to necromancy as they have no souls or life force.

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* Mindwipe is a rarity among the Decepticons, due to his mystical abilities. These abilities frustrate his Nebulan partner Vorath, who believes it's just some illusionary tricks.

### Notes

* In Transformers Media, Mindwipe doesn't have magical abilities. This was changed in Universe 2020.06 just because it made him much more of a threat than just a Hypnotist. It also makes him more unique among his Headmaster allies than just being the Bat one.