mindwipe

mindwipe
1. verb
a) To erase the memories and personality, while still leaving an intact, living brain and body. This is frequently portrayed as a form of capital punishment, which leaves an viable body into which a different personality or mind can be uploaded.

Whether they were mindwiped upon their return to base, or simply terminated like useless equipment, Deutsch never knew.

b) 636, Superman told Wonder Woman and Batman about how the League had mindwiped Dr. Light...

In Adventures of Superman

Syn: brainwipe, erase, deprogram
2. noun
The act of mindwiping.

The mindwipe of Magneto is a necessary action and it is also a wrong one, but it appears to be the only way to save the human population from extinction.


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