Metal Gear Solid

Psycho Mantis

Psycho Mantis

Psycho Mantis is a psychic soldier operating out of the terrorist unit FOXHOUND. His mother died in childbirth, and his father harbored a homicidal hatred for the newborn over the death. The first thoughts that Mantis was able to read were his father’s. With his hideously disfigured face and lifetime of war experience, Psycho Mantis has not read a lot of pleasant thoughts. Originally working for the KGB, he later defected to the US and worked as a psychic profiler, but everything went wrong for him when he went too deep into a serial killer’s mind. Now he has become a warped and twisted man, just like the criminal whose mind he probed so long ago. His madness, however, does not in any way deter his incredible psychic and military prowess.

Fighting Style

  • Psycho Mantis is an arrogant and sadistic man who takes pride in his psychic abilities. He’s likely to start off a battle by demonstrating the breadth of his power, reading his foe’s mind, toying with them by exploiting personal information, or subjecting them to hallucinations. When the fight gets going, he’ll exploit his stealth camo for brief periods of invisibility during combat, while fighting primarily with telekinesis.

Psychic Abilities

  • Levitation, Flight, and Teleportation subsection.
  • Steals a vial and teleports away with it. (source) ([MGSV])
  • Teleports over to Eli with no visual effect. (source) ([MGSV])
  • Appears out of nowhere and flies upwards. (source) ([MGSV])
  • Flies through the air and disappears. (source) ([MGSV])
  • Suddenly appears in front of Venom Snake. (source) ([MGSV])
  • Disappears while being shot at. (source) ([MGSV])
  • Levitates around a room. (source) ([MGS])
  • Telekinesis subsection - Fine Control.
  • Removes the vocal cord parasites from Eli, then rescues him from a napalm strike. (source) ([MGSV])
  • Steals a vial and teleports away with it. (source) ([MGSV])
  • Chokes a sick child to death to put him out of his misery. (source) ([MGSV])
  • Controls a helicopter’s blades. (source) ([MGSV])
  • Uses lanterns as projectiles. (source) ([MGS])
  • Vibrates the game controller in real life. (source) ([MGS])
  • Telekinesis subsection - Strength.
  • Moves a tank, a downed helicopter, and large pieces of rubble. (source) ([MGSV])
  • Throws cars at Snake from a distance. (source) ([MGSV])
  • Lifts and throws a whale. (source) ([MGSV])
  • Floats Metal Gear Sahelanthropus away. (source) ([MGSV])
  • Sahelanthropus is made of depleted uranium, which weighs 19,050 kg per cubic meter. (source)
  • Telekinetically moves furniture around. (source) ([MGS])
  • Moves a bookshelf. (source) ([MGS])
  • Assaults Solid Snake with furniture. (source) ([MGS comic])
  • Hallucinations and Illusions subsection.
  • Makes himself appear in front of Snake. (source) ([MGS])
  • Tricks the player into thinking the TV turned off. (source) ([MGS])
  • Makes himself look like Revolver Ocelot. (source) ([MGS comic])
  • Makes himself appear gigantic. (source) ([MGS comic])
  • Makes Snake hallucinate that he’s burning alive. (source) ([MGS comic])
  • Mind Control / Telepathy subsection.
  • Re-animated and controlled the Man On Fire by using others’ desire for revenge. (source) ([MGSV])
  • Man on Fire RT. (source)
  • Takes control of Metal Gear Sahelanthropus. (source) ([MGSV])
  • Sahelanthropus RT. (source)
  • Brainwashed all of the genome soldiers at Shadow Moses. (source) ([MGS])
  • Possesses Meryl with the aid of mind-control music. (source) ([MGS])
  • Reads Snake’s mind and reveals how many times he’s saved and what kind of games he likes. (source) ([MGS])
  • He can’t read Snake’s mind if the player switches the controller to port 2. (source)
  • Other subsection.
  • Destroyed his village with a psychic energy burst or something. (source) ([MGS Comic])

Physicals

  • Speed subsection.
  • Appears in the path of a sniper bullet after it’s fired. (source) ([MGSV])
  • Durability subsection - Intangibility.
  • A bullet passes through him, then he passes through a wall. (source) ([MGSV])
  • Durability subsection - Shielding.
  • Shields Eli from automatic weapons fire and rocket blasts. (source) ([MGSV])
  • Durability subsection - Intangibility/Shielding.
  • The following feats are unclear as to whether intangibility, psychic shielding, or both are involved.
  • Unaffected by XOF soldiers firing on him with rifles. (source) ([MGSV])
  • Unaffected by more soldiers shooting at him. (source) ([MGSV])
  • Durability subsection - Resilience.
  • Survived a plane crash from 8,000 feet. (source) ([MGSV])
  • Takes several hits from Solid Snake, and many bullets. (source) ([MGS])
  • Tanks a point-blank bullet to the head. (source) ([MGS comic])
  • Tanks a stun grenade. (source) ([MGS comic])

Other

  • Has optical camouflage equipment that makes him near-invisible. Otacon explains how it works. (source) ([MGS])
  • In Metal Gear Solid 4, Screaming Mantis uses armor which appears to have the soul of Psycho Mantis inside of it… or something. It’s unclear how much of Screaming Mantis’s feats are under her power or Psycho Mantis’s, but after she is defeated, her armor coalesces and operates under Psycho Mantis’s own power from beyond the grave. Psycho Mantis also controlled the other members of the Beauty and the Beast corps through his psychic powers. (source) ([MGS4])
  • Controlled the other members of the Beauty and the Beast corps through his psychic powers. (source)
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