Blindsight

Blindsight
Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) fighting and navigating while blindfolded.
Power/Ability to:	Navigate your surroundings without being able to see

"He taught me that my blindness wasn't a disability, that sight was a distraction."

― Matt Murdock/Daredevil on Stick (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

"Oh, you think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, moulded by it. I couldn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING!"

― Bane (Dark Knight Rises)

"Taking away my sight still leaves me with four very sharp senses."

― Son Goku (Dragon Ball GT)

"Oh. My. God. What happened to your eyes?"

"Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see."

― Miller and Dr. William Weir (Event Horizon)

"Is she looking at us?"

"She can't see. Hence, she cannot actually look. So, no."

― Tuffnut and Ruffnut Thorston (Dragons: Race to the Edge)

"Your eyes can deceive you. Don't trust them."

― Obi Wan Kenobi to Luke Skywalker (Star Wars: A New Hope)

The power to interact with one's environment without the aid of vision. Variation of Disability Compensation and Handicapability.

Also Called

• Blind Sense/Sight
• Sightless Sensing/Sight

Capabilities

The user can act, fight and navigate while blind, in darkness or otherwise sightless. The user's eyes may or may not have an influence on this power.

Applications

• Unaffected by the Light or Darkness
• Immune to Hypnotic Vision, Petrifying Gaze & Penance Stare
• Radar
• Echolocation
• Seismic Sense
• Sonography

Variations

• Negative Vision: See your surroundings by inverting the light absorbed in the eyes, allowing you to "see" darkness

Associations

• Danger Intuition
• Disability Compensation
• Echolocation
• Enhanced Senses
  • Enhanced Hearing
  • Enhanced Touch
• Lie Detection
• Night Vision
• Psychic Navigation

Limitations

• Depending on the methods used, may be hard to use in an unfamiliar area.

Known Users

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Hyōma Muroga (Basilisk)
• Gennosuke Kōga (Basilisk)
• Kaname Tōsen (Bleach)
• Tsukuyo Inaba (Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism)
• Yin (Darker than Black)
• Noise Marie (D.Gray-Man)
• Gyomei Himejima (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba)
• Iguro Obanai (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba)
• Son Goku (Dragon Ball series)
• Son Gohan (Dragon Ball Super)
• Yamada Asaemon Shion (Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku)
• Lugh (History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi)
• Suzu Mukai (Horizon In The Middle of Nowhere)
• N'Doul (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders)
• Johngalli A. (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part VI: Stone Ocean)
• Daiya Higashikata (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part VIII: JoJolion)
• Muteba Gizenga (Kengan Ashura)
• Uzu Sanageyama (Kill la Kill)
• Ryo Shimazaki (Mob Psycho 100)
• Kenbunshoku/Observation Haki Users (One Piece)
  • Issho/Fujitora
• Atla (Rising of the Shield Hero)
• Usui Uonuma (Rurouni Kenshin)

Cartoons/Comics

• Toph Beifong (Avatar: The Last Airbender); via Seismic Sense
• Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender); via Seismic Sense
• Wildmutt (Ben 10)
• Ultimate Wildmutt (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien)
• Antroz (Bionicle)
• Vamprah (Bionicle)
• Chirox (Bionicle)
• Jaller (Bionicle); via Great Kanohi Arthron
• Doctor Mid-Nite (DC Comics)
• Slade Wilson/Deathstroke (DC Comics)
• Superman (DC Comics)
• Madame Xanadu (DC Comics)
• Blindfold (DC Comics)
• Astrid Hofferson (How To Train Your Dragon)
• Matt Murdock/Daredevil (Marvel Comics)
• Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)
• Mayday May Parker/Spider-Girl (Marvel Comics)
• Stick (Marvel Comics)
• Izo (Marvel Comics)
• Julia Carpenter/Madam Web (Marvel Comics)
• Cassandra Webb/Madame Web (Marvel Comics)
• Zane Temple (Marvel Comics)
• Jack (Samurai Jack)
• The Snake (Teen Titans)
• Hattori Tatsu (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series)
• Raymond Connor/Daredevil (Ultimate Marvel)
• Zato Ino (Usagi Yojimbo)

Live Television/Movies

• Gordon (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
• Sonic Alphas (Alphas)
  • Dr. Graham Kern (Alphas)
• Vanessa Brewer (Angel)
• The Moon King (Kubo and the Two Strings)
• Slayers (Buffy The Vampire Slayer)
• Bendu (Star Wars)
• Jedi (Star Wars)
  • Kanan Jarrus
  • Rahm Kota (Star Wars Legends)
• Chirrut Îmwe (Star Wars)
• Aenar (Star Trek)
• Zatoichi (The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi)

Literature

• Dementors (Harry Potter)
• Iggy (Maximum Ride)
• Emrys/Merlin (The Lost Years of Merlin)

Video Games

• Crisanta of the Wrapped Agony (Blasphemous)
• Lee Sin (League of Legends)
• Turel (Legacy of Kain: Defiance)
• Kenshi (Mortal Kombat)
• Lickers (Resident Evil)
• Garradors (Resident Evil 4)
• Flameslinger (Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure)
• Kreia (Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords)
• Dezel (Tales of Zestiria)
• Bloaters (The Last of Us)
• Clickers (The Last of Us)
• Medusa (TYPE-MOON)
• Illidan Stormage (Warcraft)

Others

• Plutus (Greek Mythology)
• Terezi Pyrope (Homestuck)
• Adam Taurus (RWBY)
• Slender Man (The Slender Man Mythos)

Known Powers

• Kenbunshoku/Observation Haki (One Piece)

Gallery

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

Blind since his birth, Kaname Tōsen (Bleach) trained his spiritual senses to point of perfection as he could "see" and easily fight opponents.

Tsukuyo Inaba's (Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism) blindness is compensated by immensely sharp hearing.

Despite being blind, Yin (Darker than Black) is a doll that can sense everything, even using her medium to save Hei and play the piano perfectly, even able to walk normally.

Even when blinded, Son Goku (Dragon Ball Z) can still fight and navigate using his Chi Detection, which he demonstrates by dodging Yakon on a planet of total darkness...

...easily killing Eis Shenron after the latter slashed him across the eyes...

...and dodging attacks from Syn Shenron shortly after.

Despite being blinded by Lavender's poison, Son Gohan (Dragon Ball Super) uses his Ki Sense to block his attacks and keep fighting.

Suzu Mukai (Horizon In The Middle of Nowhere) is able to use all her other senses in a 360 degree area around her to compensate for her lack of sight.

Born blind, N'Doul (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders) had phenomenally sharp hearing being able to determine the position of a fly simply by listening to it fly or hear faint sounds such as grains of sand bouncing against an obstacle hundreds of meters away from him.

Ryo Shimazaki (Mob Psycho 100)

Issho/Fujitora (One Piece) has mastered the use of Kenbunshoku/Observation Haki to compensate for his blindness.

While she was born blind, Atla (Rising of the Shield Hero) can sense her surroundings to make up for it.

After being blinded by Shishio in a duel, Usui Uonuma (Rurouni Kenshin) gained the "Mind's Eye" and through training it allowed him superhuman hearing that acted like a sonar,...

...which more than compensated his blindness.

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Cartoons/Comics

Even though she was born blind, Toph (Avatar: The Last Airbender) feels the vibrations in the earth to know what's happening in her surroundings.

Though naturally blind, Doctor Mid-Nite (DC Comics) possesses an extraordinary vision that allows him to see to an extent.

Madame Xanadu (DC Comics)

Born blind, Stick (Marvel Comics) attained extraordinary senses through life long training.

Even though he is blind, Matt Murdock/Daredevil (Marvel Comics) is able to perfectly navigate through his surroundings.

When deprived of his sight, Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Marvel Comics) can use his spider-sense to navigate his surroundings...

...and as a form of Echolocation to detect and fight his opponents.

May Parker/Spider-Girl (Marvel Comics) using her spider-sense to fight and navigate while blindfolded.

Blinding himself to hone his Radar Sense, Master Izo (Marvel Comics) is a master in the arts of Hand and Chaste Ninjutsu.

Blinded by a strike of lightning, Astrid (How To Train Your Dragon) uses her other senses to follow her gut.

Despite being born blind, Hattori Tatsu (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series) possesses an acute sense of hearing, bordering on a sixth sense.

Raymond Connor/Daredevil (Ultimate Marvel) developed enhanced senses on par with Matt Murdock's after being blinded in an accident, allowing him to navigate and fight despite his disability just like his predecessor.

Alopex (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) uses her Enhanced Senses to defeat some Foot ninjas while blindfolded.

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Literature

Dementors (Harry Potter) are able to navigate without any eyes.

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Live Television

Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) possesses a heightened awareness of her surroundings, enabling her to navigate and fight even if her opponents are invisible or if she is deprived of her sight.

Despite having lost his eyes as a result of Terrigenesis, Gordon (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) can still see, albeit not like regular people.

Though blind, Vanessa Brewer (Angel) has gone through extensive training that enables her to sense energy sources, body language, and motion in general.

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Video Games

Though blind, Lickers (Resident Evil) are perfectly capable of navigating thanks to their super-sensitive hearing.

After being rendered blind by the growth of fungal plates over their eyes, Clickers (The Last of Us) developed echolocation capabilities to compensate.

Though blind, Dezel (Tales of Zestiria) is able to navigate by reading wind currents.

Riku (Kingdom Hearts) was able to navigate and fight while blindfolded with ease.

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Web Animation/Comics/Series/Original

Adam Taurus (RWBY) fighting Blake despite being blindfolded.

Jack (Samurai Jack) has trained to focus and hone his senses, allowing him to fight and navigate while blindfolded.

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