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Originally Posted by Dean_the_Young
Fake the symptoms by pretending he's under the same effect as the heroes, and then be 'saved' from it.
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Use his power on himself, in a xanatos gambit of absolute conviction. Plus, if any mindreader NEXT reads his self-altered memories, that 'proof' will only prove what Maverick believes not what he did.
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Arrange for evidence of his victimhood to be uncovered... like, say, being able to set up a witness who 'saw' him be brainwashed as well on a separate occassion.
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Work with Oroborous to let everyone's favorite criminal group take the responsibility: Oroborous finds/produces some NEXT who can easily be seen as responsible. Since we know that powers of the same type do exist, that's just a token-character introduction, not an impossibility.
It doesn't need to contradict. Tiger's suspicion has no proof besides the discrepancy between Maverick on TV and what Maverick told him in person, but that's the sort of discrepancy that can be explained by Maverick also being brainwashed in the interim. Since all the Heroes were also brainwashed in the interim, we know there was enough time for Maverick (Who was also at the dinner where... gasp! Everyone present forgot about Tiger!) to be hypothetically targeted.
The Heroes need to prove that Maverick is responsible for brainwashing the Heroes. That's going to include proving that Maverick himself wasn't a victim, as well as that he has the powers.
Fortunately, Kaede has provided the later.
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Barnaby, though, was with Maverick during the time that Maverick told Kotetsu that he wasn't. And the truth of that hasn't even been covered up in Barnaby's memories. Furthermore, Barnaby knows the entire truth about Maverick. As BC said, he'd need to be eliminated for Maverick to be able to successfully cover up the truth.
For Maverick to be able to cover up his lie to Kotetsu he would need to create some crazy story that his memory was somehow being altered while at the same time he was experiencing the truth. In other words there's a serious discrepancy between what he was telling Kotetsu and what was going on at his house during that time.
Also you're forgetting about Lunatic as well, while he doesn't have the best relations with the heroes, he's not their enemy either. He clearly knows things and I doubt he's just going to let the truth slip away, even if he doesn't specifically know about Maverick.
Keep in mind I don't entirely doubt the possibility of what you say happening. It certainly could happen, but it would have to be one crazy convoluted story for it to work. Furthermore, I don't want Maverick escaping justice. We've learned the truth about him and he's whipped together this crazy antagonistic plan. For him not to be taken down would be a very anticlimactic and unsatisfying end to this season. We've got more Oroborous, would you really want Maverick continuing to be the Antagonist while there is so much more that can be delved into?