Telepathy


 * For a gallery of Telepathy users, see here.

Power to mentally receive and/or transmit information. Users of this power are often called Telepaths or Mind Readers.

Also Called

 * Legilimency
 * Mind Reading

Capabilities
The ability falls into two categories, Telepathic Communication, which is the ability to transmit information from mind to another, and Telepathic Perception, which is the ability to receive information from another mind.

Applications
Similar to "Telekinesis", "Telepathy" is an umbrella term for any ability that involves projecting, reading and manipulating thoughts.

Telepathic Defense

 * Illusion Manipulation: The ability to manipulate what others perceive, such as making them see things that aren't actually present, or not see things that are.
 * Psychic Shadow: The ability to mask psychic presence, hiding from other psychics.
 * Psychic Shield: The ability to erect a psychic shield to protect the minds of oneself and/or others.

Telepathic Offense

 * Binding: The ability to restrict the movements of others via the mind.
 * Darkside View:  The ability to communicate with and bring out the dark side of a person's personality.
 * Download: The ability to quickly process, store, or download information through anothers mind.
 * Emotion Manipulation: The ability to make one feel pleased, happy, pained, or any other emotion.
 * Lightside View: The ability to communicate with and bring out the good side of a person's personality.
 * Mental Projection: The ability to project thoughts into reality.
 * Mind Control: The ability to manipulate the minds of other via thought process.
 * Mind Exchange: The ability to transfer one's mind into anothers body, taking control of that body; can be done in inanimate objects as well, telekinetically controlling it.
 * Mindscape Transportation: The ability to transport physical matter into ones conscious or subconscious thoughts.
 * Neurocognitive Deficit: The ability to shut down an opponent's higher brain function.
 * Pain Inducement: The ability to induce an illusion of pain.
 * Psionic Inundation: The ability to launch psi-bolts to cause mental damage.
 * Psychic Constructs: The ability to generate constructs out of mental energy.
 * Psychic Energy Manipulation: The ability to produce and manipulate mental energy.
 * Psychic Inhibitors: The ability to place inhibitors in the mind to limit another's capabilities.
 * Psychosomatic Illusion: The ability to create powerful illusions that may cause severe physical damage.
 * Pushing: The ability to implant memories, thoughts, and emotions into others.
 * Telepathic Prediction: The ability to know an opponent's moves and attacks by reading their brain waves

Telepathic Supplementary

 * Audible Inundation: The ability to create voices and sounds in the minds of others.
 * Body Language Analysis: The ability to predict the target's next move.
 * Consciousness Transferal: The ability to transfer one's mind to a new body if the users body is destroyed/killed.
 * Mind Link: The ability to develop a permanent mental bond with any person, also called imprinting.
 * Mind Melding: The ability to fuse one's consciousness with another.
 * Omnilingualism: The ability to intuitively understand new languages.
 * Psychic Communication: The ability to open up secret conversations and relay covert information.
 * Psychic Navigation: The ability to create a mental map of the area.
 * Psychic Wave Manipulation: The ability to generate and manipulate thought waves.
 * Sensory Scrying: The ability to perceive through the sense of other beings.
 * Sleep Inducement: The ability to put others to sleep.
 * Telempathy: The ability to communicate through emotions.
 * Telepathic Relay: The ability to act as a mental relay station for a group of minds, allowing said minds to "speak" to one another through the user.
 * Telepathic Speaking: The user of this power can speak by using their mind combined with mental powers.
 * Thought Manifestation: Project one's thoughts telepathically.
 * Thought Manipulation: The ability to control the thoughts of others.
 * Truth Inducement: Make others tell the truth by shutting down their brain inhibitors.

Variations

 * Temporal Telepathy
 * Visual Telepathy

Associations

 * Potentially all non-physical Mental Powers.
 * Animal Telepathy
 * Clairvoyance
 * Dream Manipulation
 * Mental Manipulation
 * Mental Shield Penetration
 * Mind Control
 * Omnipathy (advanced version of this power)
 * Telepathic Language Instruction
 * Telepathic Mimicry

Limitations

 * Does not work on mindless beings (corpses, animated objects, robots,etc.).
 * May be limited to a certain range to work.
 * May be limited to one target at a time.
 * May be unable to "turn off" their power and have to constantly hear thoughts.
 * Since the user constantly hears thoughts, this power becomes ineffective in large crowds.
 * May not be able to read impulsive actions.
 * Psychic Shield users of a higher level are immune to this ability.
 * Sometimes, it's better to not know what others are thinking, even when their thinking about you.
 * May get overwhelmed by too many thoughts.
 * Unless one is multilingual or have the automatic ability to translate and decrypt, ability may not work if the target is thinking in alternate languages or encrypted codes.
 * The more intense the thought, the louder is sounds to the user.

Known Users
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 * All Martians (DC Comics)
 * Psimon (DC Comics)
 * Aquaman (''DC Comics)
 * Tempest (DC Comics)
 * Tomorrow Woman (DC Comics)
 * Amperi (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien)
 * Angel (Maximum Ride)
 * Anodites (Ben 10)
 * Ao (Yozakura Quartet)
 * Aqualad (Teen Titans)
 * Aranea Serket (Homestuck)
 * Archangel Members (Paradox Saga)
 * Aris (The Maze Runner trilogy)
 * Betta George (Angel: After the Fall)
 * Black Bolt (Marvel)
 * Blindfold (Marvel Comics)
 * Cable (Marvel Comics)
 * Jean Grey/Phoenix (Marvel Comics)
 * Chamber (Marvel Comics)
 * Charles Xavier/Proffesor X (Marvel)
 * M.O.D.O.K. (Marvel Comics)
 * Emma Frost/White Queen (Marvel Comics)
 * Astrid Bloom (Marvel Comics)
 * Quentin Quire (Marvel Comics)
 * Elton (Monster Buster Club)
 * Goliad (Adventure Time)
 * Taranee Cook (W.I.T.C.H.)
 * Halinor (W.I.T.C.H.)
 * Martian Manhunter/J'onn J'onzz (DC Comics)
 * Icon (DC Comics)
 * Sasuke the Demon Queller (Usagi Yojimbo)
 * Scarah Screams (Monster High)
 * Daphne (Winx Club) to Bloom

Film/Television

 * Homo Superiors (The Tomorrow People)
 * Merrill Young & Patsy LaRue (Vampire High)
 * Matt Parkman (Heroes)
 * Maury Parkman (Heroes)
 * Arthur Petrelli (Heroes)
 * Barry The Bellboy (True Blood/The Sookie Stakehouse novels)
 * The Master (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
 * Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
 * Telepaths Demons (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
 * Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer); temporarily
 * Listeners (Legend of the Seeker)
 * The Host (Doctor Who: Tooth and Claw)
 * The Ood (Doctor Who)
 * The Vulcans (Star Trek)
 * Charles Deveaux (Heroes)
 * Christy Jenkins (Charmed)
 * Zachary (Charmed)
 * Clark Kent (Smallville); temporarily
 * Daphne Powell (No Ordinary Family)
 * Dr. Tachyon (Wild Cards series)
 * Kelly Bailey (Misfits)
 * Drusilla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
 * Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
 * Gary Mitchell (Star Trek: The Original Series)
 * Grandma (The Twilight Zone: I Sing the Body Electric)
 * Gregory Kennedy (The Young Guardians)
 * River Tam (Firefly)
 * Poli Truper (Supertorpe)
 * Catalina Bladimof (Chica Vampiro)
 * Keira Beltrán (Los Unicos)

Manga/Anime

 * Maximillion Pegasus (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
 * Babidi (Dragon Ball Z)
 * Lapras (Pokemon)
 * Cobra (Fairy Tail)
 * Warren (Fairy Tail)
 * Hiei (YuYu Hakusho)
 * G1 Soundwave (Transformers)
 * Giant Lion-Turtle (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
 * Goshinki (InuYasha)
 * Kazuma Kuwabara (YuYu Hakusho)
 * Mewtwo (Pokemon)
 * King Kai (Dragon Ball Z)
 * Dufort (Zatch Bell)
 * Lucario (Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew)

Game

 * Black Doom (Sonic the Hedgehog)
 * Bloody Mary (Infamous 2: Festival of Blood)
 * Bradley (The Medusa Project)
 * Chakron (Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story)
 * CJ Ward (Tower Prep)
 * Dr. Toadley (Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story)
 * Elisa and Ursula (Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops)
 * Ed (The Medusa Project)
 * Ermac (Mortal Kombat)
 * Female Skrall (Bionicle)
 * Mao (Code Geass)
 * Fi (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)
 * Furons (Destroy All Humans)
 * Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda)
 * Lingering Sentiment (Kingdom Hearts)
 * Kessler (Infamous)

Novel/Book

 * Edward Cullen (Twilight)
 * Hunter (True Blood/The Sookie Stakehouse Novels)
 * Jacob Black (Twilight)
 * Jayfeather (Warriors)
 * Jobe Smith (Lawnmower Man)
 * Kamal Re'x (Universe at War)
 * Kira (Phantom Investigators)
 * Krystal (Star Fox)
 * Level 5 or higher Shaman (Scorpius: The Golden Age)
 * Ma-Ti (Captain Planet)
 * Madelyne Spaulding (Static Shock)
 * Lucia (Los Protegidos)
 * Miss Martian/M'gann M'orzz (DC Comics)
 * Mizou Yukuhashi (Medaka Box)
 * Mother Brain (Metroid)
 * Nate Gray/X-Man (Marvel Comics)
 * Necromorph Hivemind (Dead Space)
 * Nowaki Hotaru (Zettai Karen Children)
 * Paradox Agents (Paradox Saga)
 * Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Stephen King's It)
 * Peter Petrelli (Heroes)
 * Princess Zelda (The Legend of Zelda)
 * Psychic-type Pokemon (Pokemon)
 * Psycho Mantis (Metal Gear Solid)
 * Psylocke (Marvel Comics)
 * Ra'ad (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien)
 * Ra`ad (Ben 10)
 * Rachel Summers/Marvel Girl/Phoenix (Marvel Comics)
 * Ryan James (Smallville)
 * Sabrina (Pokemon)
 * Sadecki Demons (Angel: After the Fall)
 * Sage (Marvel Comics)
 * Sara (Race to Witch Mountain)
 * Sasha (Infamous)
 * Satori Komeiji (Touhou)
 * Saturen Girl (DC)
 * Serena Killingsworth (Daughters of the Moon series)
 * Silver the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog/Archie Comics)
 * Sir George (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien)
 * Siu May (Mermaid Got Married)
 * Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood/The Sookie Stakehouse Novels)
 * Space Jockeys (Aliens franchise)
 * Spock (Star Trek)
 * Stepford Cuckoos (Marvel Comics)
 * Tavros Nitram (Homestuck)
 * Telepaths (Mutant X)
 * Teresa Agnes (The Maze Runner trilogy)
 * Tezuka Miyuki (Kamen Rider Ryuki)
 * The Charmed Ones (Charmed) via Power Of One
 * The Goblin Queen (Marvel)
 * The Wraith (Stargate Atlantis)
 * Thomas (The Maze Runner trilogy)
 * Toa Kongu Inika (Bionicle)
 * Todd Ingram (Scott Pilgrim VS The World)
 * Trip (Power Rangers Time Force)
 * Veriel via Topaz Glasses (Guardian Archangels)
 * Vriska Serket (Homestuck)
 * Xybrians (Power Rangers)
 * Yellow (Pokemon Adventures)
 * Laura Leander (Laura and the Secret of Aventerra)
 * Mary Morgain (Laura and the Secret of Aventerra)
 * Yugo Gilbert (Project ARMS)
 * Luke Magewood (Charlie Bone)
 * Eustacia Yewbeam (Charlie Bone)
 * Zorin Blitz (Hellsing)
 * Faes, chameleons, elves, ghost-whispering supernaturals & spirits (Shadow Falls)}}