Electroreception

Electroreception
Maxwell Dillon/Electro (Marvel Comics)
Power/Ability to:	Sense electrical stimuli.

"Invisible Energy, broadcast on more frequencies than you could possibly imagine. It's all around, bombarding you every moment of your life. Like climbing down a spiderweb woven from electric thread."

― Leslie Willis/Livewire (DC Comics)

Power to perceive electrical stimuli. Sub-power of Electricity Manipulation.

Also Called

• Electric Field Detection
• Electrolocation
• Electropathy
• Electrosensory System
• Electrical Detection

Capabilities

User can use electroreception to locate objects around them. This is important in places where the user cannot depend on vision: for example in caves, in murky water and at night. Predators who have this sense use electric fields to detect buried prey.

This sense can be passive or active:

• Passive: In passive electrolocation, the user senses the weak bioelectric fields generated by living beings and uses it to locate them. These electric fields are generated by everything living due to the activity of their nerves and muscles.

• Active: In active electrolocation, the user senses their surrounding environment by generating electric fields and detecting distortions in these fields using electroreceptor organs. This allows them to detect non-living objects as well as living beings.

Applications

• Blindsight
• Compass Sense
• Danger Intuition
• Electrical Telepathy
• Electricity Detection
• Hyper Awareness
• Magnetoreception
• Navigation Intuition
• Observation Detection
• Radar
  • 360-Degree Senses
• Sonar
• Radio Frequency Detection
• Spatial Perception
• Weather Sensing

Associations

• 360-Degree Senses
• Antenna Protrusion
• Computer Operation Intuition
• Compass Sense
• Danger Intuition
• Electric Field Manipulation
• Electricity Generation
• Electricity Manipulation
• Electricity Detection
• Electrocommunication
• Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Senses
• Extrasensory Perception
• Hyper Awareness
• Field Perception
• Fish Physiology
  • Shark Physiology
• Hacking Intuition
• Magnetoreception
• Mechanical Intuition
• Monotreme Physiology; platypuses/platypi
• Navigation Intuition
• Radio Frequency Detection
• Sense Manipulation
• Spatial Perception

Trivia

• This is a real life superpower, as sharks are able to use Electrolocation to sense and track prey in the oceans.

Known Users

• Electrogenic Alphas (Alphas)
• Navigator Alphas (Alphas)
  • Gabby (​Alphas)
• Kanon Ozu (Coppelion)
• Leslie Willis/Livewire (DC Comics)
• Haumea (Fire Force)
• Saki Hanajima (Fruits Basket)
• Guyver Units (Guyver)
• Scauldrons (How To Train Your Dragon)
• Cole MacGrath (Infamous)
• Kessler (Infamous)
• Maxwell "Max" Dillon/Electro (Marvel Comics)
• Meggan Puceanu (Marvel Comics)
• Ian (Michael Vey)
• Enel (One Piece); via Rumble-Rumble Fruit/Goro Goro no Mi
• Ulraj (The Secret Saturdays)
• Kumari (The Secret Saturdays)
• Remi (UnOrdinary)
• Electromasters (To Aru Majutsu no Index & To Aru Kagaku no Railgun)
  • Misaka Mikoto
  • Sister clones

Known Objects

• Electro-Blast Ring/Lighting (Marvel Comics)
• Goro Goro no Mi (One Piece)

Gallery

Ulraj (The Secret Saturdays) stopping an invisible Komodo from eating his kelp necklace.

Using their head sensors, Guyver Units (Guyver) can sense electromagnetic fields outside of their direct line of physical sight

Cole MacGrath (Infamous) can use his Radar Pulse to detect electrical energy sources.

Kessler (inFamous)

Kanon Ozu (Coppelion) discharging electricity, allowing her to sense ions to great precision for 1 km.

Enel (One Piece) can pick up electrical sound waves in the air, and combined with his Mantra, allowing him to perceive with a radar-like sense.

Saki Hanajima (Fruits Basket) can psychically sense electrical signals and waves in the air, using them to read auras and minds.

Scauldrons (How to Train Your Dragon) can sense electrical pulses which they use to track their favorite prey, the Seashockers. However, Scauldrons can accidentally track down electric eels, one of the few things they are afraid of.