- "I know what you're going to do next. I've already played this fight in my head, a million times, from each and every angle. I won this before you even turned up."
- ― Midnighter (Wildstorm/DC Comics)
The ability to perceive and understand all cause and effect relations. Sub-power of Causality Manipulation. Advanced variation of Probability Perception.
Also Called[]
- Causality Sense/Vision
Capabilities[]
The user can perceive and understand all cause and effect relations, deducing the path leading to any effect, allowing them to plan, analyze, and take action with absolute efficiency. They can perceive the cause and effect relations of their own thoughts giving them the ability to tackle various situations by simply thinking about possible routes they could take.
In a fighting situation, they can adapt perfectly to all factors before they even appear, achieving maximum efficiency in the offense, defense, and strategy, ensuring optimal success as long as there is the slightest chance.
As a strategist, the user can always achieve optimal results (depending on the means at their disposal), perfectly anticipating all variables and their opponents' every move. These calculations can lead to extremely complicated planning in the long run, which always ends up being successful.
As scientists, they can discover new theories and invent new technologies with incredible ease, as they can automatically deduce the correct path to the desired result and remove the need for trial/error basic protocol.
The user can instantly understand anything by perceiving all the causes/effects it is currently made of, as well as all the previous ones that lead to this state. For example, a simple glance at someone would be enough to learn about their nature, personality, history, expectations, strengths, weaknesses, etc. The perception can also be turned to the person's future, its many paths, its probabilities, and the one which will eventually be realized.
Criminals with this power could execute perfect crimes very easily, as they would know exactly which actions would lead to their arrest and which wouldn't, by knowing all possible consequences (effect) of each action (cause).
In short, users are flawless tacticians. They understand everything, they're always several steps ahead of everyone else, impossible to catch off-guard, and always achieve the best possible results.
Applications[]
- Accelerated Perception
- Action Mastery
- Adaptive Learning
- Adaptive Mind
- Aim Dodging
- Answer Intuition
- Attack Prediction
- Automatic Self-Preservation
- Combat Perception
- Danger Intuition
- Destiny Perception
- Detail Intuition
- Domino Effect
- Energy Perception
- Error Prevention
- Extrasensory Perception
- Fact Perception
- Flawless Precognition
- Future-Probability Cognition
- Hyper Awareness
- Hypercognition
- Hyper Instincts
- Infinite Resourcefulness
- Logic Intuition
- Omnicompetence
- Omni-Intuition
- Optimal Finesse
- Path to Victory
- Pattern Sense
- Photographic Deduction
- Reality Perception
- Response Mastery
- Retrocognition
- Supernatural Perception
- Tactical Genius
- Weakness Detection
Variations[]
Associations[]
- Causality Manipulation
- Cyber Mind
- Enhanced Intelligence
- Enhanced Vision
- Nigh Omniscience
- Probability Perception
- Prescience
Limitations[]
- User's achievements are limited by the means at their disposal and the information from the sensory input.
- User's body may not be able to keep pace with their perceptive abilities.
- May be limited by the user's physical field of perception.
Known Users[]
- Hyperkinetic Alphas (Alphas)
- God Hand (Berserk)
- Aion (Chrono Crusade)
- Kashiwagi Rein (Darwin's Game)
- Midnighter (DC Comics); via Cyber Mind
- Slade Wilson/Deathstroke (DC Comics); via Computer Perception and Tactical Analysis
- Ran (Denma); via Causality Calculation Quanx ability
- Users of Causality calculator (Denma)
- God (Devilman)
- Dominic Deegan (Dominic Deegan: Oracle For Hire); via Precognition
- The Doctor (Doctor Who); via Future-Probability Manipulation
- King Bradley (Fullmetal Alchemist); via Ultimate Eye
- David Xanatos (The Gargoyles), via Supernatural Intelligence
- Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes series); via Photographic Deduction and Attack Prediction
- James Moriarty (Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes series); via Computer Perception and Tactical Analysis
- The Hardy Boys (The Hardy Boys series); via Pattern Sense, Photographic Deduction, Tactical Analysis, Enhanced Investigation, Enhanced Intelligence, Law Intuition, Hacking Intuition, Crimefighting Mastery, and Escape Artistry
- Tactically Augmented Organism/TAO (Image Comics/Wildstorm Comics)
- Visnu (Kubera); via Insight
- Kali (Kubera); via Insight
- Uriel (Lucifer)
- Black Mage (MapleStory); via Rhinne's ability
- Nancy Drew (Nancy Drew); via Pattern Sense, Photographic Deduction, Tactical Analysis, Enhanced Investigation, Enhanced Intelligence, Law Intuition, Hacking Intuition, Crimefighting Mastery and Escape Artistryhe
- Users of Kenbunshoku/Observation Haki (One Piece)
- Captain Watts/Reggie/Robert Alexander Watts/Robbie/Regina Alexis Watts (SCP Foundation)
- Yuji Sakai (Shakugan no Shana)
- Mitsuru Kamekura (Type-Moon)
- Answer Talker Users (Konjiki no Gash Bell!)
- Clifford Devoe (Arrowverse) via Accelerated Probability
Known Powers[]
- Laplace (Darwin's Game)
- Insight (Kubera)
Known Objects[]
- Causality Calculator (Denma)
Gallery[]
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