Blindsight

Blindsight
Caine (John Wick) fighting toe-to-toe against John Wick despite being completely blind.
Power/Ability to:	Act without sight.

"I have a confession to make. I'm... I'm blind"
"No s***!"
"Yeah, although I've trained my other senses to a point where you wouldn't notice my handicap, in the water they'd be quite useless."

― Woozie and CJ (Grand Theft Auto 3D Universe)

"You won didn't you?"
"Oh, you knew that?"
"Yes. Perspiration, body temperature, the sound of muscles, rather than losing light, what I can see has increased... I know your fate for tomorrow too."
"Really?"
"Yes. Tomorrow won't come to you."

― Saigiku Jōno and Osamu Dazai (Bungo Stray Dogs)

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

― Son Goku (Dragon Ball GT)

"With the blast shield down, I can't even see. How am I supposed to fight?"
"Your eyes can deceive you. Don't trust them."

― Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)

The power to act without sight. Technique of Senseless Activity. Variation of Disability Compensation.

Also Called

• Sightless Sensing/Sight
• Unconscious Visual Perception

Capabilities

The user can act, fight and navigate without sight. This could be while blind, eyes closed, blindfolded, in darkness or otherwise sightlessness. The user's eyes may or may not have an influence on this power. The user can be blindfolded or is permanently/or naturally blind. Users also demonstrate this even if they are temporarily blinded.

Applications

• Unaffected by Light Generation or Darkness Generation
• Immune to Hypnotic Vision, Petrifying Gaze & Penance Stare
• Aura Reading
• Aura Detection
• Danger Detection
• Echolocation
• Radar
• Seismic Sense
  • Lie Detection
• Sonography

Associations

• Disability Compensation
• Senseless Activity

Limitations

• Depending on the methods used, may be hard to use in an unfamiliar area.
• May not be effective against Killing Eyes.

Known Users

See also: Blindfolded Vision

Anime/Manga/Aeni/Manhwa

• Various Characters (Baki the Grappler)
• Hyōma Muroga (Basilisk)
• Gennosuke Kōga (Basilisk)
• Kaname Tōsen (Bleach)
• Saigiku Jono (Bungo Stray Dogs)
• Tsukuyo Inaba (Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism)
• Yin (Darker than Black)
• Noise Marie (D.Gray-Man)
• Master Muten Roshi (Dragon Ball series)
• Son Goku (Dragon Ball series)
• Son Gohan (Dragon Ball series)
• Lamia (The Haunted House/Shinbi Apartment)
• Yamada Asaemon Shion (Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku)
• Jintae Yang (Hero Killer)
• Lugh (History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi)
• Suzu Mukai (Horizon in The Middle of Nowhere)
• Johngalli A. (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• N'Doul (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• Daiya Higashikata (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 8: JoJolion)
• Satoru Gojo (Jujutsu Kaisen)
• Muteba Gizenga (Kenganverse)
• Uzu Sanageyama (Kill la Kill)
• Gyomei Himejima (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
• Iguro Obanai (Kimetsu no Yaiba); via Kaburamaru
• Doom (Mashle: Magic and Muscles)
• Ryo Shimazaki (Mob Psycho 100)
• All For One (My Hero Academia); via Infrared
• Mujuro Utsutsu (Ninja Scroll)
• Observation Haki users (One Piece)
  • Issho/Fujitora
• Qin Shi Huang (Record of Ragnarok)
• Atla (The Rising of the Shield Hero)
• Usui Uonuma (Rurouni Kenshin)
• Nina Drango (Shingeki no Bahamut)
• Nai (Zettai Karen Children)

Cartoons/Comics

• Seismic Sense users (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
  • Aang
  • Toph Beifong
• Vulpimancer (Ben 10)
  • Wildmutt
    • Ultimate Wildmutt
• Antroz (Bionicle)
• Vamprah (Bionicle)
• Chirox (Bionicle)
• Jaller (Bionicle); via Great Kanohi Arthron
• Clark Kent/Superman (DC Comics)
• Doctor Mid-Nite (DC Comics)
• Nimue Inwudu/Madame Xanadu (DC Comics)
• Slade Wilson/Deathstroke (DC Comics)
• Snake (Teen Titans)
• Astrid Hofferson (How To Train Your Dragon); briefly
• Sentinels (How To Train Your Dragon)
• Leucistic Baryonyx (Jurassic Park)
• Po (Kung Fu Panda)
• Rev Runner (Loonatics Unleashed)
• Cassandra Webb/Madame Web (Marvel Comics)
• Izo (Marvel Comics)
• Julia Carpenter/Madam Web (Marvel Comics)
• Matt Murdock/Daredevil (Marvel Comics)
• Mayday "May" Parker/Spider-Girl (Marvel Comics)
• Maximillian Coleridge/Shroud (Marvel Comics)
• Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)
• Ruth Aldine/Blindfold (Marvel Comics)
• Stick (Marvel Comics)
• Zane Temple (Marvel Comics)
• Raymond Connor/Daredevil (Ultimate Marvel)
• Garrett (Quest for Camelot)
• Jack (Samurai Jack)
• Kanan Jarrus (Star Wars)
• Practitioners of the Hercules Method (The Strange Talent of Luther Strode)
• Secret Squirrel (Super Secret Secret Squirrel); one episode
• Hamato Yoshi/Splinter (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV Series)
• Victor Falco/Rat King (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV Series)
• Hattori Tatsu (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series)
• Zato-Ino (Usagi Yojimbo)

Folklore/Mythologies

• Plutus (Greek Mythology)

Live Action Movies/TV Series

• Gordon (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
• Sonic Alphas (Alphas)
  • Dr. Graham Kern (Alphas)
• Zatoichi (The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi)
• Slayers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Vanessa Brewer (Angel)
• Caine (John Wick)
• Therizinosaurus (Jurassic Park)
• Jin Takamiya/Kamen Rider Amazon Alpha (Kamen Rider Amazons)
• The Moon King (Kubo and the Two Strings)
• Taylor Krane/S-1 (Lab Rats)
• Master Swoop (Power Rangers Jungle Fury)
• Aenar (Star Trek)
• Bendu (Star Wars)
• Chirrut Îmwe (Star Wars)
• Jedi (Star Wars)
  • Kanan Jarrus
  • Rahm Kota
  • Tahl
• Miraluka (Star Wars)
• Elekings (Ultraman series)
• Fei Hargreeves/Number Three (The Umbrella Academy)
• Faceless Aliens/Alien Rebels (The X-Files Mytharc)

Literature

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

Tabletop/Video Games

• Cecilia (AFK Arena)
• Crisanta of the Wrapped Agony (Blasphemous)
• Blindsight users (Dungeons & Dragons/Forgotten Realms)
• Falmer (The Elder Scrolls)
• Ballora (Five Nights at Freddy's)
• Wu Zi "Woozie" Mu (Grand Theft Auto 3D Universe)
• Antlions (Half-Life)
• Jingliu (Honkai: Star Rail)
• Light Cruiser Princess (Kantai Collection)
• Bloaters (The Last of Us)
• Clickers (The Last of Us)
• Lee Sin (League of Legends)
• Turel (Legacy of Kain: Defiance)
• Wardens (Minecraft)
• Kenshi Takahashi (Mortal Kombat)
• Zubat (Pokémon)
• Green (Rainbow Friends)
• Lickers (Resident Evil)
• Flameslinger (Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure)
• Kreia (Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords)
• Dezel (Tales of Zestiria)
• Medusa (TYPE-MOON)
• Illidan Stormage (Warcraft)

Web Animations/Comics/Original

• Terezi Pyrope (Homestuck)
• Fox Alistair (RWBY)
• Adam Taurus (RWBY)
• Slender Man (The Slender Man Mythos)

Known Powers

• Ultra Sensitivity (Dragon Ball Series)
• Observation Haki (One Piece)

Gallery

Anime/Manga/Aeni/Manhwa

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

Despite being blind, Saigiku Jono (Bungo Stray Dogs) can accurately grasp and discern his surroundings using his superhuman sense of hearing.

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.

Master Muten Roshi (Dragon Ball series) using the principles of Ultra Instinct to fight and navigate while blindfolded.

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

Even when blinded, Son Goku (Dragon Ball series) 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.

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, 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.

Despite being born blind, Gyomei Himejima (Kimetsu no Yaiba) can fight at speeds faster than the eye can see using his acute sense of hearing that can even detect echoes in his weapon when he swings it around, allowing him to get an accurate grasp of the surroundings.

After Obanai Iguro (Kimetsu no Yaiba) loses both his eyes, he was still able to fight effectively by relying on his pet snake, Kaburamaru, who can predict his opponent's attacks and relay the information to Obanai himself in order to fight.

Ryo Shimazaki (Mob Psycho 100)

After his eyes were scarred by All Might, All For One (My Hero Academia) uses the Infrared Quirk to compensate for his blindness.

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

Qin Shi Huang (Record of Ragnarok) can fight Gods with his blindfold on.

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.

Nai (Zettai Karen Children) has been blinded with a blindfold since birth to make her less prone to emotions, she relies on her powerful sensing abilities when fighting and is able to 'sense' other people emotions, though after the surgery her eyesight has improved.

Cartoons/Comics

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

Wildmutt (Ben 10)

Ultimate Wildmutt (Ben 10)

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

Nimue Inwudu/Madame Xanadu (DC Comics)

Snake (Teen Titans)

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

After accidentally blinding himself with the Golden Lotus Clap, Po (Kung Fu Panda) relied on his sense of smell and turn off the lights so Junjie can use his sense of hearing to even the fight.

Sentinels (How To Train Your Dragon) are naturally blind dragons, but they compensate for this by developing extremely heightened senses of hearing and smell to navigate and track other dragons.

Rev Runner (Loonatics Unleashed) using his internal GPS to sense and navigate in total darkness.

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

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

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

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.

After being branded with the "Kiss of Kali," losing his eyesight, Maximillian Coleridge/Shroud (Marvel Comics) gained a mystical sense of perception enabling him to "see" even through his own mantle of darkness.

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

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.

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

Despite being blinded, Kanan Jarrus (Star Wars) was able to defeat formidable lightsaber duelists.

Hamato Yoshi/Master Splinter (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV Series) is a master of blind fighting able to use his other senses to dodge his son Leonardo's attacks and defeat him and later....

used the same fighting style to defeat the Rat King for good by using a blind fold to prevent him from seeing his eyes with his Psychic connection to rats.

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

Victor Falco/Rat King (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV Series) despite being physically blind can use his Psychic connection to Rats to allow him to see through the eyes of other rats like his pet Aristotle allowing him to anticipate Master Splinter's moves and hold his own against the Ninja Master.

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

Literature

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

Live Action Movies/TV Series

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.

Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) possesses a heightened awareness of her surroundings, enabling her to navigate and fight even while blindfolded.

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

Chirrut Îmwe (Star Wars)

Fei Hargreeves/Number Three (The Umbrella Academy)

Video Games

Despite being blind, Wu Zi "Woozie" Mu (Grand Theft Auto 3D Universe) has trained his other senses to a point where anyone wouldn't notice his handicap.

Antlions (Half-Life) are blind and use pheromones and vibrations to identify other living beings.

Jingliu (Honkai: Star Rail)

Light Cruiser Princess (Kantai Collection)

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

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

Though blinded, Kenshi Takahashi (Mortal Kombat) is perfectly capable of fighting and navigating through his spiritual senses.

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

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

Web Animations/Comics/Original

Adam Taurus (RWBY) fighting Blake despite being blindfolded.

Despite being blind from birth, Fox Alistair (RWBY) makes up for it with Extrasensory Perception granted to him by Aura, such as detection and Aura reading, in addition to Ada, a technological aid provided to him.

Videos

I'm blind, Carl, not stupid-2

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멈춰!🖐 귀도 문양을 떼고 각성하는 강림! - 14화 하이라이트 - 신비아파트 고스트볼ZERO- 두 번째 이야기 - 신비아파트 공식 채널-2

라미아가 달🌕을 떨어트리려 한다고? 힘을 합쳐 막아야해! - 14화 하이라이트 - 신비아파트 고스트볼ZERO- 두 번째 이야기 - 신비아파트 공식 채널-2

강림X카인 조합.. 가슴이 웅장해진다... - 15화 하이라이트 - 신비아파트 고스트볼ZERO- 두 번째 이야기 - 신비아파트 공식 채널-2

하리야! 네가 세상의 마지막 희망이야! - 15화 하이라이트 - 신비아파트 고스트볼ZERO- 두 번째 이야기 - 신비아파트 공식 채널-2

The Blind Swordsman- Zatoichi (1-11) Movie CLIP - Blind Fury (2003) HD-2

The Blind Swordsman- Zatoichi (9-11) Movie CLIP - Zatoichi Kills Everyone (2003) HD-2

ジョジョ- N'Doul Appears 『 HD』-2

ジョジョ- N'Doul vs. Joestar Group (1) 『 HD』-2

ジョジョ- N'Doul vs. Joestar Group (2) 『 HD』-2

Marvel's Daredevil Vs Nobu Full Fight 2015

Every Toph Earthbending Moment Ever ⛰ - Avatar- The Last Airbender-2

Gaara VS Toph (Naruto VS Avatar) - DEATH BATTLE!-2

Music

Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood (Official Video)

Gorillaz - 19-2000 (Official Video)

Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. (Official Video)

Gorillaz - Dirty Harry (Official Video)

DO YA THING (OFFICIAL VIDEO) GORILLAZ - FT. ANDRE 3000, JAMES MURPHY-2

Gorillaz - Strobelite (Official Video)

Gorillaz - Garage Palace (Visualiser)

Gorillaz - Humility (Official Video)

Gorillaz - Tranz (Official Video)

Gorillaz - Aries ft. Peter Hook & Georgia (Episode Three)

Gorillaz - PAC-MAN ft. ScHoolboy Q (Episode Five)-2

Gorillaz - Strange Timez ft. Robert Smith (Episode Six)

Gorillaz - The Pink Phantom ft. Elton John & 6LACK (Episode Seven)

Gorillaz - The Lost Chord ft. Leee John (Episode Nine)