Death Sense

Death Sense
After becoming a Valkyrie, Danielle Moonstar (Marvel Comics) gained the ability to sense death.
Power/Ability to:	Sense death.

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force… as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."

― Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)

"Seriously, you're gonna die at a hotdog eating contest."

― Death to Muscle Man (Regular Show)

The power to sense the coming of death and the actual act of dying. Technique of Death-Force Manipulation. Variation of Precognition. Opposite to Life Perception.

Also Called

• Death Prediction/Vision
• Death Perception
• Mortality Precognition
• Shinigami Eyes

Capabilities

The user can sense the coming of death, determining when someone is dead or dying or if others have died in a specific location. This may extend to seeing the names and lifespans of those whose faces the user sees.

Applications

• Know, sense and predict deaths at a certain range:
  • Retrocognition (death only)
  • Clairvoyance (death only)
  • Precognition (death only)

Associations

• Aura Reading
• Chrono Vision
• Danger Intuition
• Death-Force Manipulation
• Death Manipulation
• Life and Death Manipulation
• Life-Force Manipulation
• Life Vision
• Mediumship
• Necromancy
• Necroscience
• Precognition
• Shamanism

Limitations

• Only works on beings capable of dying.
• May have limited range depending on the user's proficiency, innate talent or the nature of the power itself.
• May be always on.
• May not work on the user's own death.
• May only work on beings with a soul.
• May only be able to see natural death.
• Deaths may always happen despite the user's actions.
• They may come out as signs or clues.

Known Users

Cartoons/Comics

• Danielle Moonstar (Marvel Comics)
• Rachel Summers (Marvel Comics)
• Victor Creed/Sabretooth (Marvel Comics)
• Selene (Marvel Comics)
• Ghost Rider (Marvel Comics)
• Prince Wayfinder (Marvel Comics)
• Eric Brooks/Blade (Marvel Comics)
• Melody Jacobs/Threnody (Marvel Comics)
• Charles Hinton (Marvel Comics/Marvel Cinematic Universe)
• Scolippi (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part V: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo); via Rolling Stones
• Spawn (Image Comics)
• Black Hand (DC Comics)
• Bloodwynd (DC Comics)
• Jeannette (DC Comics)
• Lisa Drake (DC Comics)
• Ned Flanders (The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror)
• Grim (The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy)
• Hellboy (Hellboy/BPRD)

Television/Movies

• Billy Blake (Luke French: Alien Hunter)
• Angel of Death (Charmed)
• Rack (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Death (Supernatural)
• Vanessa Stanley (Haven)
• Characters who cheat death (Final Destination)
• Ana Cristina Martínez (The Eye)
• Sydney Wells (The Eye)
• Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Sam Winchester (Supernatural); via Precognition but lost it after his first death.
• Cyclops Race (Krull)
• River Tam (Firefly)
• Force Sensitives (Star Wars)
• Eric Northman (True Blood)
• Bill Compton (True Blood)
• Yukio (The Wolverine)
• Jordan Cross (Smallville); via physical contact with anyone
• Lydia Martin (Teen Wolf)
• Meredith Walker (Teen Wolf)
• Lorraine Martin (Teen Wolf)
• Jordan Parrish (Teen Wolf)
• Kelpiens (Star Trek Discovery)
  • Saru
• Clyde Bruckman (X-Files)

Literature

• Nico di Angelo (Percy Jackson and the Olympians/The Heroes of Olympus)
• Bianca di Angelo (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
• Hazel Levesque (The Heroes of Olympus)
• Holiday Brandon (Shadow Falls)
• Kylie Galen (Shadow Falls)
• Della Tsang (Shadow Falls)
• Burnett James (Shadow Falls)

Anime/Manga

• Michiru Kita (Zombie-Loan)
• Gravekeepers (Sunday without God)
• The Darkness (Top Cow)
  • Jackie Estacado
• Absol (Pokémon)
• Shinigami (Death Note)
• Users of the Shinigami Eyes (Death Note)
• Users of Kenbunshoku/Observation Haki (One Piece)
  • Aisa
  • Koby
• Mei Misaki (Another)
• Takatou Yogiri (Instant Death)
• Alucard (Hellsing)
• InuYasha (InuYasha)
• Rukia Kuchiki (Bleach)
• Souta Hatate (Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara)
• Amane (Mushi-shi); via the Ganpuku Mushi
• Kururugi Suzaku (Code Geass)
• Haruhiro (Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash)
• Souta Hatate (If Her Flag Breaks); via Death Flags
• Mahitotsuhime/Levi Kazama (Trinity Seven)
• Ryuki Kashin (Trinity Seven); after taking Levi's left eye
• Vandalieu (The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time); via Danger Sense: Death
• Mikoto Aiura (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K)

Video Game

• Raziel (Legacy of Kain)
• D (Vampire Hunter D)
• Mundus (Devil May Cry)
• Nightmare (Soul Calibur)
• Shiki Ryougi (TYPE-MOON)
• Shiki Tohno (TYPE-MOON)

Other

• Laura Sanz (The Subject No. 1)
• Thanatos (Valkyrie Crusade)

Gallery

A Shinigami (Death Note) can simply look at the face of a target and see the name and remaining lifespan of the said human.

By trading half of one's lifespan, humans who own the Death Note (Death Note) can also possess the Shinigami Eyes.

Bloodwynd (DC Comics)

The mystical Spawn (Image Comics)

Michiru Kita (Zombie Loan) possesses this power via her "Shinigami Eyes".

The Angel of Death (Charmed)

Alex Browning (Final Destination)

Kimberly Corman (Final Destination 2)

Wendy Christensen (Final Destination 3)

Nick O'Bannon (The Final Destination)

Sam Lawton (Final Destination 5)

Yukio (The Wolverine) has a limited precognitive ability to discern the nature of a person's death.

Sam Winchester (Supernatural) had the ability to see the deaths of others in his psychic visions

As a Banshee, Lydia Martin (Teen Wolf), is a harbinger of death and has auditory and visual premonitions of deaths involving supernatural creatures.

Jordan Parrish (Teen Wolf) as a hellhound, is able to sense and locate dead supernatural beings.

Befitting its name as the "Disaster Pokémon", Absol (Pokémon) is able to sense when a tragedy such as death is about to occur.

Darth Vader (Star Wars)

D (Vampire Hunter D)

Rachel Summers (Marvel Comics)

Death (Supernatural)

Scolippi's Stand, Rolling Stones (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V Golden Wind/Vento Aureo) shapes into someone who is destined to die soon and begins tracking them down.

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Thanatos (Valkyrie Crusade) as the goddess of death, can perceive death on all things.

Shiki Tohno (TYPE-MOON) perceives Roa's death lines.

Shiki Ryougi (TYPE-MOON) can perceive the "lines and points of death" around all things.

Aisa's (One Piece) Mantra or Kenbunshoku/Observation Haki unwillingly give her the abiliy to sense whenever a person would die.

Mahitotsuhime/Levi Kazama (Trinity Seven) left eye known as "Eye of the God of Calamity" or "Divine Disaster Eye" allows her to sense the deaths of others...

...and see the upcoming death of everything including objects.

Ryuki Kashin (Trinity Seven) acquired the abilities of Mahitotsuhime's left eye, which she took along with her when she died, to "see" and sense the deaths of others.