Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction 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 a 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.2001, Jeffrey A Carver, James A Carver, Eternity's End:
In Adventures of Superman #636, Superman told Wonder Woman and Batman about how the League had mindwiped Dr. Light...2006, Jeffery Klaehn, Inside the World of Comic Books:
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.2009, Andrew Terjesen, “Dirty Hands and Dirty Minds: The Ethics of Mind Reading and Mindwriting”, in X-Men and Philosophy: