Enhanced Senses

"This is the best damn thing that ever happened to me. Well, now that I've learned to control it, I'm like Superman or something. I can hear rain coming from forty miles away. I can even hear someone's moods, the tiniest changes in a heartbeat."

- Dale Smither, Heroes

"Speaking of which, I'm sensing something big and out of control heading for us."

- Astrid Hofferson, Dragons: Race to the Edge

The power to possess extremely accurate senses. Sub-power of Enhanced Condition and Sense Manipulation.

Also Called

 * Advanced/Heightened/Increased/Strengthened Perceptions
 * Advanced/Heightened/Increased/Strengthened Senses
 * Hyper-Senses

Capabilities
The user has extremely accurate senses, allowing them to see, hear, smell, taste, and feel better than an average member of their species.

Applications

 * Accelerated Perception: Slow down the user's perception of time.
 * Enhanced Synesthesia: Perceive multiple different sensory or cognitive responses at once.
 * Illusion Awareness: Many illusion will affect only certain senses but lack in others, for example an illusion might lack a smell or have no heartbeat.
 * Sense Focusing: Focus senses to look for a particular sight/sound/smell/taste and blocking out all others.

The Five Senses:
 * Enhanced Hearing: Ears pick up every single sound, and can decipher layer upon layer of noise; has the ability to pick up a conversation from a mile away in a busy city. May even mutate into Echolocation.
 * Enhanced Smell: Users can detect specific smells, and locate their origin. Some may even be able to tell if someone is lying by which hormones they excrete.
 * Enhanced Taste: User has an extremely developed sense of taste and may be able to detect poisons or other problems. Some may be able to taste all of their surroundings at once from a distance.
 * Enhanced Touch: Some can feel so acutely that to rub the users hand on a paper would be like reading the page, sensing every bump, ripple or wave. Some may even be able to tell of distant occurrences felt through vibrations in the air, ground, and water.
 * Enhanced Vision: Can see with amazing clarity/detail, distance, or color, perhaps even in a different spectrum of light or into other dimensions.

Other Senses:
 * Electroreception: Can detect and follow electricity and related phenomenon.
 * Energy Detection: Sense all forms of energy.
 * Enhanced Balance: Sense of equilibrium and ability to use it well.

Variations

 * Extrasensory Perception: Also known as the "Sixth Sense", users of this rare ability can instantly know whatever they wish without the need to perceive or experience it, often reaching into Clairaudience, Claircognizance, Clairempathy, Precognition, Psychometry, Retrocognition, etc.
 * Hyper Awareness: All senses are attuned to nearby activity.
 * Infrared Perception: Can sense infrared/temperature.
 * Spatial Perception: Can sense space, size and shapes.
 * Underwater Senses: Can sense with clarity underwater.

Levels

 * Peak Human Senses: User's senses are at the peak human limit.
 * Enhanced Senses: User's senses are beyond peak human limits, but below high superhuman levels.
 * Supernatural Senses: User's senses are supernaturally acute, at a high superhuman level.
 * Absolute Senses: User's senses are at an infinite scale.

Associations

 * Compass Sense
 * Danger Intuition
 * Detection
 * Echolocation
 * Empathy can be used to detect emotions such as fear.
 * Enhanced Condition
 * Enhanced Accuracy
 * Enhanced Agility
 * Enhanced Initiative
 * Enhanced Tracking
 * Lie Detection
 * Motion Sense
 * Nerve Manipulation
 * Opportunity Sense
 * Pattern Sense
 * Protected Senses keep senses from being overloaded.
 * Relation Intuition
 * Sense Manipulation
 * Sonography
 * Speed Perception
 * Temporal Cognition
 * Temporal Intuition
 * Water Sense
 * Weakness Detection
 * Weather Sense

Limitations

 * Drugs or other means can either negate or remove these senses unless they are reversible.
 * Overloading may be a frequent occurrence.
 * Magic may cause interference.
 * May be dulled by pain if user is injured.

Known Users
See Also Super Senses.

Literature
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 * Titan/Arion McGrath (The Guardians Saga)
 * Mistborn (Mistborn series)
 * Tineyes (Mistborn series)
 * Windwhisper (Mistborn series)
 * Lory (Red Queen)
 * The Amys (Replica)
 * Josh and Sophie Newman (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel)
 * Vampires and werewolves (Shadow Falls)
 * Melina Gold (Silver Moon Chronicles)
 * Vampires (Twilight series)
 * Akasha (The Vampire Chronicles)
 * Dovepaw (Warriors)
 * Dovewing (Warriors)
 * Angelface (Wild Cards series)
 * Tinisha Dolaira (The Young Guardians)

Anime/Manga

 * Toby/Astro (Astro Boy)
 * Dark Schneider (Bastard!!); via his Majin Form
 * Sajin Komamura (Bleach)
 * Tenpouin Yuuki (Code: Breaker); sound
 * Taeko Nomura (Coppelion)
 * Saiyans (Dragon Ball series)
 * Goku
 * Vegeta
 * Piccolo (Dragon Ball series)
 * Dragons and Dragon Slayers (Fairy Tail)
 * Ling Yao (Fullmetal Alchemist)
 * Lan Fan (Fullmetal Alchemist)
 * Fu (Fullmetal Alchemist)
 * May Chang (Fullmetal Alchemist)
 * Alucard (Hellsing)
 * Gon (Hunter x Hunter)
 * InuYasha (InuYasha)
 * Jotaro Kujo (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III Stardust Crusaders); via Star Platinum
 * Tsunayoshi Sawada (Katekyo Hitman Reborn); via Vongola Super Intuition
 * The Fanalis (Magi)
 * Itachi Uchiha (Naruto)
 * Dracule Mihawk (One Piece)
 * Users of Cosmo (Saint Seiya)
 * Black☆Star (Soul Eater)
 * Free (Soul Eater)
 * Fae (Throne of Glass)
 * D (Vampire Hunter D)

Comics

 * Raqib the Watcher (The 99)
 * Durham Red (2000 AD)
 * Dark Claw (Amalgam Comics)
 * Icon (DC Comics)
 * Bizarro (DC Comics)
 * Hawkman (DC Comics)
 * Animal Man (DC Comics)
 * Killer Croc (DC Comics)
 * Wonder Woman (DC Comics)
 * Green Martians (DC Comics)
 * White Martians (DC Comics)
 * Krytonians (DC Comics); via yellow sun radiation
 * Daxamites (DC Comics); via yellow sun radiation
 * Starfire (DC Comics)
 * Darkseid (DC Comics)
 * Timber Wolf (DC Comics)
 * Phantom Stranger (DC Comics)
 * Captain Carrot (DC Comics)
 * Doomsday (DC Comics)
 * Pantha (DC Comics)
 * Spawn (Image Comics)
 * Superman X (Legion of Super-Heroes)
 * Callisto (Marvel Comics)
 * Daredevil (Marvel Comics)
 * Stick (Marvel Comics)
 * Thornn (Marvel Comics)
 * Wolfsbane (Marvel Comics)
 * James “Logan” Howlett/Wolverine (Marvel Comics)
 * Laura Kinney/X-23 (Marvel Comics)
 * Sabertooth (Marvel Comics)
 * Wild Child (Marvel Comics)
 * Feral (Marvel Comics)
 * Monet St. Croix (Marvel Comics)
 * Drax the Destroyer (Marvel Comics)
 * Hulk 2099 (Marvel Comics)
 * Hawkeye (Ultimate Marvel Comics)
 * Beast (Marvel Comics)
 * Black Panther (Marvel Comics)
 * Various incarnations of Captain America (Marvel Comics)
 * Prince Wayfinder (Marvel Comics)
 * Nathan Summers/Cable (Marvel Comics)
 * Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)
 * Silver Surfer (Marvel Comics)
 * Thor (Marvel Comics)
 * Nightcrawler (Marvel Comics)
 * Namor (Marvel Comics)
 * Tony Stark (Marvel Comics); via Iron Man Armor
 * Catseye (Marvel Comics)
 * Rocket Raccoon (Marvel Comics)
 * Tigra (Marvel Comics)
 * Sunspot (Marvel Comics)
 * Dormammu (Marvel Comics)
 * Vampirella (Vampirella)
 * Sara Pezzini (Witchblade)
 * Mister Majestic (Wildstorm/DC Comics)}}

Cartoons
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 * Muhktar (Aladdin: the Animated Series)
 * Toph Beifong (Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra); except eyesight
 * Ben Tennyson (Ben 10)
 * Ship (Ben 10)
 * Wildmutt (Ben 10)
 * Spidermonkey (Ben 10: Alien Force/Ultimate Alien)
 * Ultimate Spidermonkey (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien)
 * Astrid Hofferson (Dragons: Race to the Edge)
 * Rolf (Ed, Edd, n' Eddy)
 * Inspector Gadget (Inspector Gadget)
 * Experiment 626 "Stitch" (Lilo & Stitch)
 * Lexi Bunny (Loonatics Unleashed)
 * Jack (Samurai Jack)
 * Scooby-Doo (Scooby-Doo)

Television

 * Illyria (Angel)
 * Rachel Pirzad (Alphas)
 * Vanessa Brewer (Angel)
 * Vampires (Being Human)
 * Werewolves (Being Human); briefly, before and after transformation
 * Vampires (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel)
 * Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
 * Faith Lehane (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
 * Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
 * Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
 * Raxacoricofallapatorians (Doctor Who)
 * Slitheen
 * Time Lords (Doctor Who)
 * Sylar (Heroes)
 * Donna Dunlap (Heroes)
 * Saranelle "Sarah" Magalang (Kung Fu Kids)
 * Chase Davenport (Lab Rats)
 * Calvin Porter (Mutant X); hearing
 * Shalimar Fox (Mutant X)
 * Doggie Cruger (Power Rangers SPD)
 * Many villains (Power Rangers series)
 * Will (Power Rangers Operation Overdrive)
 * Jim Ellison (The Sentinel)
 * Spock (Star Trek)
 * Clement MacDonald (Torchwood Children of Earth)
 * Maddy Smith (Wolfblood)
 * Rhydian Morris (Wolfblood)
 * Jana Vilkas (Wolfblood)
 * Wolfbloods (Wolfblood)
 * Tom Turbo (Tom Turbo)

Movies

 * Xenomorphs (Alien series)
 * Godzilla (Godzilla)
 * Elves (Lord of the Ring series)
 * Daredevil (Marvel Cinematics Universe)
 * Stick (Marvel Cinematics Universe)
 * G-Girl (My Super Ex-Girlfriend)
 * Predators (Predator/Alien vs. Predator)
 * RoboCop (RoboCop)
 * Boba Fett (Star Wars)
 * Terminators (The Terminator)

Video Games

 * Dirty Rat (Ace Lightning)
 * Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad (Assassin's Creed)
 * Ezio Auditore da Firenze (Assassin's Creed)
 * Haytham Kenway (Assassin's Creed)
 * Edward Kenway (Assassin's Creed)
 * Ratonhnhaké:ton (Assassin's Creed)
 * Shay Cormac (Assassin's Creed)
 * Desmond Miles (Assassin's Creed)
 * Rayne (BloodRayne)
 * Alonne (Dark Souls 2)
 * Protagonist Characters (Fallout series); via Perception Skill & various perks
 * Jack Carver (Far Cry Instincts)
 * Viera (Final Fantasy)
 * Kain (Legacy of Kain)
 * Raziel (Legacy of Kain)
 * Link (The Legend of Zelda)
 * Solid Snake (Metal Gear)
 * Samus Aran (Metroid)
 * Baraka (Mortal Kombat)
 * Alex Mercer (Prototype series)
 * James Heller (Prototype 2)
 * Demons/Fiends (Quake series)
 * Rottweilers (Quake series)
 * Lickers (Resident Evil)
 * Blind Dogs (S.T.A.L.K.E.R Series)
 * Pseudodogs (S.T.A.L.K.E.R series)
 * Psy Dogs (S.T.A.L.K.E.R series)
 * Rodents (S.T.A.L.K.E.R series)
 * Swatbots (Sonic the Hedgehog)
 * Tasmanian Devils (Sonic the Hedgehog)
 * Wombat Stu (Sonic the Hedgehog)
 * Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)
 * Clawgrip (Super Mario Bros. series)
 * Tryclyde (Super Mario Bros. series)
 * Yoshis (Super Mario Bros. series)
 * Turbo Mecha Sonic (Super Mario Bros. Z)
 * Witchers (The Witcher series)

Web Original

 * SCP-4007 - Kagemusha (SCP Foundation)
 * SCP-2408-1 - Orok's Fall (SCP Foundation)}}