History Main / DirtyMindReading

** Now and then this gets subverted by Satori getting ''bored'' with the dirty thoughts.
* [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Kreia's]] bond with the Jedi Exile sometimes veers into this territory, with the old bag lecturing about "base thoughts" and "indignities." However, one also wonders if that misplaced [[{{Dune}} Bene Gesserit]] is getting her kicks by it, as she's talking about it a lot.

** In ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Lwaxana Troi read some dirty thoughts from Picard, or at least claimed to for the sake of messing with his head.

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* ''SchoolRumble'' -- Weird example -- Yakumo can't read minds, only of those in love with her. However, she's very beautiful, and half the male population is head-over-heels for her, yet she's never heard anything dirty, but she just finds their obsession intimidating.
** Until she found Hanai carrying what's left of Nishimoto's PornStash.
* In ''MahouSenseiNegima'', you don't even need another person to find yourself in this situation, such as [[ShrinkingViolet Nodoka]] [[MindProbe Miyazaki]], who has a [[{{Understatement}} rather]] [[CovertPervert perverted subconscious]].
** And much later, NaughtyTentacles and Boobies. Very creepy until [[SamusIsAGirl the truth]] [[DoubleStandard is revealed]].
* This is how an EliteMook with a mind-reading madogu in ''FlameOfRecca'' is defeated by Domon--she suffers a wardrobe malfunction and all Domon can think of after that is "BOOBS!"
* In ''YuYuHakusho'', Yusuke and company force a mind reader to help them find whoever is opening up the portal to the demon world, telling him to listen for anything strange. What he comes up with is a lusty "[[HotForStudent That girl's thinking about getting it on with her teacher, dammit!]]"
* Subverted in ''AngryLeadSkies'', where Garrett encounters a strange race of [[strike: aliens]] silver elves. Informed that the female he's confronting may be a telepath, he tests this idea by deliberately picturing the two of them having vigorous sex, then watching her shocked reaction.
* The heroine in ''{{TelepathicWanderers}}'' is both good-looking and telepathic. Knowing a lot of people are fantasizing about raping her drives her to become a hermit.
* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has a scene where Shinji stumbles onto a memory of Misato's while in {{Instrumentality}} from when she was in her college days--in particular, when she skipped classes to have a week-long sex romp with Kaji. Misato freaks out about how she doesn't want Shinji to see her "like that", but Shinji just seems numb (or perhaps entranced).
** ''EndOfEvangelion'' also ([[EpilepticTrees maybe]]) has Asuka finding out from Shinji's memories what [[ADateWithRosiePalms he did over]] [[DudeShesLikeInAComa her comatose body]][[hottip:*:"I know ALL about your little jerkoff fantasies about me. Go ahead, I'll even stand here and watch...!"]]. She wasn't pleased though she was also astonishingly civil about it, knowing her {{tsundere}} nature.
* Satori of [[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]] has the ability to read minds and he is ''not happy'' when the Saotomes and Tendos don't believe him. So, to prove that he can, he decides to read one of their minds and then tell them their thoughts. Unfortunately for him, he happens to choose [[DirtyOldMan Happosai's.]] It was so bad that Satori had a {{nosebleed}} and fainted.
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* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has a scene where Shinji stumbles onto a memory of Misato's while in {{Instrumentality}} from when she was in her college days--in particular, when she skipped classes to have a day-long sex romp with Kaji. Misato freaks out about how she doesn't want Shinji to see her "like that", but Shinji just seems numb (or perhaps entranced).
** ''EndOfEvangelion'' also ([[EpilepticTrees maybe]]) has Asuka finding out from Shinji's memories what [[ADateWithRosiePalms he did over]] [[DudeShesLikeInAComa her comatose body]]. She wasn't pleased.

* The empath character on [[MutantX]] had to ask teammates to stop thinking such thoughts about her on (oddly only a few) occasions.

* This trope plagues poor [[{{Touhou}} Satori Komeji]] in fanarts, [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/316872/-3-blush-censored-commentary-d-embarrassed-heart-k such as this one]]. [[CorruptTheCutie It sometimes gets to her too]]. [[{{FetishFuel/Touhou}} Sometimes it also gets very interesting]].

* This trope plagues poor [[{{Touhou}} Satori Komeji]] in fanarts. [[CorruptTheCutie It sometimes gets to her too]]. [[{{FetishFuel/Touhou}} Sometimes it also gets very interesting]].

** ''EndOfEvangelion'' also has Asuka finding out from Shinji's memories what [[ADateWithRosiePalms he did over]] [[DudeShesLikeInAComa her comatose body]]. She wasn't pleased.
*** Did she? [[EpilepticTrees It's never]] [[WildMassGuessing actually made]] [[MindScrew clear whether or not]] [[GainaxEnding she knows.]] Don't present YOUR theories as fact.

* [[HornyDevils Cubi]] in ''{{DMFA}}'' are mindreaders, and apparently, some mental blocks are useful in [[AllGhoulsSchool SAIA]]. Also, [[http://www.missmab.com/Demo/Cubi02.php thinking kinky isn't a good way to deter Cubi]].

For bonus points, have him accidentally read the mind of someone in the next room [[PrimalScene actually having sex]]. A subtrope of AMindIsATerribleThingToRead, though often played for comedy as well. See also OhGodDidSheJustHearThat.

* An issue of ''[[UltimateSpiderMan Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' plays with this. As Spidey is meeting the X-Men for the first time, Jean Grey notes that he's the first person who hasn't immediately imagined her naked, which he hadn't...until she put the idea of doing so into his head. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny The next page and a half]] is her getting more and more annoyed as Spidey desperately tries to ''stop'' imagining her naked.

* Sasha Nein from ''{{Psychonauts}}'' accidentally wound up doing this as a child when attempting to learn more about his dead mother by probing his father's mind. Most of them were happy memories. A few of them were ''really'' happy (and [[OhKitty child-scarring]]) memories.

* An issue of ''[[UltimateSpiderMan Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' plays with this. As Spidey is meeting the X-Men for the first time, Jean Grey notes that he's the first person who hasn't immediately imagined her naked...until now. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny The next page and a half]] is her getting more and more annoyed as Spidey desperately tries to ''stop'' imagining her naked.

* Dirty Object Reading variant: This is a RunningGag in the 1988 [[NeedsMoreLove Hidden Gem]] ''Vibes''.

* When Edward of ''{{Twilight}}'' reveals his telepathy to Bella, he mentions that most of the people around them are thinking of either sex or money. Exceept one, who was thinking about their cat. It's also made pretty clear that this is one of the least pleasant parts of the high school experience. He can hear everybody's pointless horny thoughts... as well as much later hear the thoughts of a gang of thugs who were going to rape the girl he loves. [[StalkingIsLove Fortunately, he was nearby to rescue her.]]

* In one of the {{Xanth}} novels, three of the young characters need to join the Adult Conspiracy (i.e. learn about sex) before obtaining a magical MacGuffin that will allow one of them to lead a tribe of goblins. This is because said character is nearly blind, and the item she needs is a set of magical contact lenses that will not only fix her vision, but allow her to see into the thoughts and daydreams of others. Including the naughty ones. It was determined that she had best learn about sex the mature way, rather than from seeing the filthy thoughts of the average goblin male.

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* In ''[[DanAndMabsFurryAdventures DMFA]]'', all Cubi are naturally mindreaders. (technically 'thoughtreaders': in DMFA canon, 'mindreading' is intentionally searching through a target mind's memories, not just picking up on current thoughts). Some beings think they can scare away Cubi by intentionally thinking dirty thoughts for them to read. This doesn't work, though, as 'Cubi' is short for "Incubi and Succubi"-and a being attempting to out-dirty a race whose very name comes from supernatural seducers would have to get pretty inventive. It can be inverted, however: [[http://www.missmab.com/Demo/Cubi02.php think of something boring]] or make it appear that [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_565.php your mind's not safe to read.]]
* A halfling in [[http://mindflayed.0nyx.com/ Mind Flayed]] protects herself from a mind flayer by responding to its telepathy with thoughts of "hot uncensored tentacle sex." This is doubly traumatic for a species with facial tentacles.

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* ''Something Is Out There'' (a short-lived sci-fi series on NBC). The alien protagonist Ta'Ra is telepathic; unfortunately she's also a [[MsFanservice hot chick]] so she's constantly annoyed over how these Earth people want to "do ''that'' with her body" (her species has a [[BizarreAlienBiology somewhat different way of making love]]).

* Subverted in ''Angry Lead Skies'', where Garrett encounters a strange race of [[strike: aliens]] silver elves. Informed that the female he's confronting may be a telepath, he tests this idea by deliberately picturing the two of them having vigorous sex, then watching her shocked reaction.
* The heroine in {{TelepathicWanderers}} is both good-looking and telepathic. Knowing a lot of people are fantasizing about raping her drives her to become a hermit.

** EndOfEvangelion also has Asuka finding out from Shinji's memories what [[ADateWithRosiePalms he did over]] [[DudeShesLikeInAComa her comatose body]]. She wasn't pleased.

** Now and then this gets subverted via Satori getting ''bored'' with the dirty thoughts.

* In ''DMFA'', all Cubi are naturally mindreaders. (technically 'thoughtreaders': in DMFA canon, 'mindreading' is intentionally searching through a target mind's memories, not just picking up on current thoughts). Some beings think they can scare away Cubi by intentionally thinking dirty thoughts for them to read. This doesn't work, though, as 'Cubi' is short for "Incubi and Succubi"-and a being attempting to out-dirty a race whose very name comes from supernatural seducers would have to get pretty inventive. It can be inverted, however: [[http://www.missmab.com/Demo/Cubi02.php think of something boring]] or make it appear that [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_565.php your mind's not safe to read.]]

* This trope plagues poor [[{{Touhou}} Satori Komeji]] in fanarts. [[CorruptTheCutie It sometimes gets to her too]]. [[{{FetishFuel/Touhou}} Sometimes it also gets very interesting]].

* This ''Series\Tin Man'' [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4044972/1/Brother_Raw_Explains_It_All_For_You fanfic]] uses a version of it. [[TheEmpath Raw]] isn't sure quite what to make of the truly strange emotions coming from two of his human friends, as Viewers handle the whole mating thing much differently. Unfortunately for him, he finds out.