Lobotomy

A lobotomy is a surgical procedure designed to make crazy people act just a little less crazy. It involves cutting away and removing part of the prefrontal cortex. Supposedly there is some benefit to doing this, but by all accounts, all it seems to do is turn people into drooling vegetables.

Ideally only skilled surgeons should be allowed to conduct such an operation. Apes can do it to though. Just ask Zira from Planet of the Apes. By her own account, she has dissected many human subjects. John Landon was one such victim to fall under a scalpel happy monkey's blade.

In the 2011 film Sucker Punch, Doctor Vera Gorski was chomping at the bit to perform a lobotomy on Babydoll. This supposedly cured her of the bizarre fantasy realm she had created for herself, and was seen smiling as she was being led away following her lobotomy.

Although not explicitly shown, lobotomies also took place in the 1979 sci-fi film The Black Hole. Mad scientist Doctor Hans Reinhardt took control of the exploratory vessel the U.S.S. Cygnus and lobotomized all of the crew, turning them into robe-wearing obedient drones.

In DC Comics continuity, the Justice League of America ran afoul of a group of White Martians who called themselves the Hyperclan. At the end of the feud, JLA member the Martian Manhunter gave them all psychic lobotomies erasing their memories and forcing them to assume mundane, humanoid forms. He then reprogrammed their brains with false memories and sent the Hyperclan members out into the world to join the human race.

Films

 * Black Hole, The
 * Planet of the Apes
 * Sucker Punch