Echolocation

Echolocation
Siren X (Arrowverse) demonstrates.
Power/Ability to:	Navigate via sound waves.

"I "listen" to my Spider-Sense with every once of concentration and spring when it gets the loudest!!"

― Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)

The ability to determine the location of objects in the environment by use of reflected sound waves. Sub-power of Sound Manipulation.

Also Called

• Radar Pulse/Sense
• Sonar Sense

Capabilities

User can emit sound waves and use the echoes that return from various objects to locate and identify the objects. Alternately, they can use ambient sounds to do the same. Since this ability isn't based on sight/light, Invisibility is useless against it, as are most forms of Camouflage.

Applications

• Blindsight
• Enhanced Hearing
• Radar

Techniques

• Illusion Awareness: Illusions lack mass from which sound would bounce.

Variations

• Energy Senses: can be used for similar effect.
• Seismic Sense: Sense vibrations from solid objects.
• Sonar: Echolocation using water as a medium instead of air.

Associations

• Animal Morphing
  • Bat Physiology
• Clairvoyance
• Energy Perception
• Psychic Navigation
• Sonic Scream
• Sound Manipulation
• Sound Tracking

Limitations

• Sound Absorption
• Completely negated by Inaudibility.
• Blocked by powers that can prevent/dampen sound-waves (Air Manipulation, Force-Field Generation, etc.).
• Can be overloaded if there are too many sensory impressions.
• Other sounds may throw off this ability's effectiveness.
• Users may have sensitive ears, which can be painful.
• Depends on how user's powers works, certain things may not be detectable.

Known Users

• Tengen Uzui (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
• Asa Palmer (The Academy)
• Zebra (Toriko)
• Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach)
• Bats (Crypt of the NecroDancer)
• Bubbles (The Powerpuff Girls)
• Sonorosians (Ben 10 Alien Force/Ben 10: Ultimate Alien/Ben 10: Omniverse)
  • Echo Echo
  • Ultimate Echo Echo
• Circe (Generator Rex)
• Musa (Winx Club)
• Sonic Alphas (Alphas)
  • Dr. Graham Kern (Alphas)
• Li Yong (Ripley's Bureau of Investigation)
• James Heller (Prototype 2)
• Tenpouin Yuuki (Code: Breaker)
• Lickers (Resident Evil)
• Cole MacGrath (Infamous) via Radar Pulse
• Inaba Ui (Killing Bites)
• Future Predators (Primeval)
• Lexi Bunny (Loonatics Unleashed)
• RoboCop (RoboCop)
• Neo (The Matrix)
• Master Chief (Halo)
• River Tam (Firefly)
• Toothless (How to Train Your Dragon)
• Venom Snake (Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain)
• Batsy Claro (Monster High)
• Jacob Pevsner (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
• Juan Ruiz (Stan Lee's Superhumans)
• Tomokui Kanata/Rou (Re: Monster)
• Morgiana (Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic)
• Samus Aran (Metroid)
• Guiron (Gamera vs Guiron)
• Barugon (Gamera vs Barugon)
• Rouge the Bat (Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Knuckles the Echidna (Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Metal Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Moka Akashiya (Rosario + Vampire)
• Tsukune Aono (Rosario + Vampire)
• Mole Man (Marvel Comics)
• Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)
• Daredevil (Marvel Comics)
• Banshee (Marvel Comics)
• Iron Man (Marvel Comics)
• Nova (Marvel Comics)
• Deathlok (Marvel Comics)
• Cable (Marvel Comics)
• Namor (Marvel Comics)
• Doctor Doom (Marvel Comics)
• Kaine (Marvel Comics)
• Bastion (Marvel Comics)
• Gustav 'Libra' Brandt (Marvel Comics)
• Jack-in-the-Box (Marvel Comics)
• Zatanna (DC Comics)
• Aquaman (DC Comics)
• Martians (DC Comics)
• Jerro the Merboy (DC Comics)
• Robert Langstrom/Man-Bat (DC Comics)
• Batrok (DC Comics)
• Nosferata (DC Comics)
• Cyborg (DC Comics)
• Titanosaurus (Godzilla)
• MUTOs (Godzilla)
• Zubat-Golbat-Crobat (Pokemon)
• Gligar-Gliscor (Pokemon)
• Noibat-Noivern (Pokemon)
• Some Water-type Pokemon (Pokemon)
• Clickers (The Last of Us)
• Bloaters (The Last of Us)
• Batfink (Batfink)
• Indoraptor (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom)
• SCP-2191-1 - "Dracula Factory" (SCP Foundation)
• Raymond Connor/Daredevil (Ultimate Marvel)
• Tohru (Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid)
• Inklings (Splatoon); via Echolocator

Gallery

MUTOs (Godzilla) can use echolocation to communicate, find a source of radiation, and locate each other.

Tenpouin Yuuki (Code: Breaker) can listen to sound waves to locate people.

Koga's (Pokemon) Golbat uses Supersonic to create a magic scrying mirror based on sound waves.

Lexi Bunny (Loonatics Unleashed)

Lickers (Resident Evil) navigate via this ability.

James Heller (Prototype 2) using his Sonar ability.

Cole MacGrath (Infamous) using his radar pulse.

After being blinded by radioactive material, Matt Murdock/Daredevil (Marvel Comics) developed a Radar Sense to compensate for his blindness.

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

Banshee (X-Men: First Class) uses Sonic Scream to perform Echolocation.

Adam Jensen (Deus Ex: Human Revolution) has a built-in radar.

Guiron (Gamera vs Guiron) possesses "360 radar vision"

Barugon (Gamera vs Barugon) possesses "Radar Horns"

Morgiana (Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic) uses her Battle Cry for echolocation.

The Indoraptor (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) can echolocate more effectively than any bat.

Tohru (Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid) using echolocation to find her way around a house of mirrors.

Batfink (Batfink)

Venom Snake's (Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain) prosthetic arm has a built-in sonar function.