mindwipe

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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

In Adventures of Superman #636, Superman told Wonder Woman and Batman about how the League had mindwiped Dr. Light.

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.

In 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 punishment, which leaves an viable body into which a different personality or mind can be uploaded