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|Row 1 title = Power/Ability to:
 
|Row 1 title = Power/Ability to:
 
|Row 1 info = Sense, feel and understand the emotions of others.}}
 
|Row 1 info = Sense, feel and understand the emotions of others.}}
{{Quote|If you don't share someone's pain, you can never understand them.|Nagato/Pain (Naruto)}}
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{{Quote|If you don't share someone's pain, you can never understand them.|Nagato/Pain (Naruto)}}{{Quote|When we have the wisdom to use mercy and compassion instead of force...we human creatures will finally be on the path to perfection.|Leslie Thompkins (DC Comics)}}The power to '''fully interpret and replicate the emotions, moods, and temperaments of others'''. Sub-power of [[Emotion Manipulation]]. Opposite to [[Apathy]].
The power to '''fully interpret and replicate the emotions, moods, and temperaments of others'''. Sub-power of [[Emotion Manipulation]]. Opposite to [[Apathy]].
 
   
 
==Also Called==
 
==Also Called==
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==Capabilities==
 
==Capabilities==
The user can fully [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy interpret and replicate] the emotions, moods, and temperaments of others without reading apparent symptoms, allowing them to understand introverts or discover one emotion is actually hiding another. They can attack someone in a personal and emotional way since they know exactly what emotion is flowing through themselves and can use this knowledge to play against them. Some users may learn to read emotional imprints left into environment or objects.
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The user can fully [[wikipedia:Empathy|interpret]] the emotions, moods, and temperaments of others without reading apparent symptoms, allowing them to understand introverts or discover one emotion is actually hiding another. They can attack someone in a personal and emotional way since they know exactly what emotion is flowing through themselves and can use this knowledge to play against them. Some users may learn to read emotional imprints left into environment or objects.
   
 
Usually over time, an Empath's power grows to the point that they can [[Emotion Manipulation|manipulate emotions]] on others, and possibly use them to empower themselves. The user may learn to extend their power over/on vast number of sentient beings or reach extreme distances, even other levels of existence but this may be possible only if the user has emotional link to those they search already in effect.
 
Usually over time, an Empath's power grows to the point that they can [[Emotion Manipulation|manipulate emotions]] on others, and possibly use them to empower themselves. The user may learn to extend their power over/on vast number of sentient beings or reach extreme distances, even other levels of existence but this may be possible only if the user has emotional link to those they search already in effect.
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==Applications==
 
==Applications==
 
*[[Citified Sense]]
 
*[[Citified Sense]]
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**[[Techno-Empathy]]
 
*[[Ecological Empathy]]
 
*[[Ecological Empathy]]
 
**[[Animal Empathy]]
 
**[[Animal Empathy]]
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*[[Emotion Detection]]
 
*[[Emotion Detection]]
 
*[[Emotion Projection]]
 
*[[Emotion Projection]]
*[[Empathic Conversion]]
 
 
*[[Empathic Echoes]]
 
*[[Empathic Echoes]]
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*[[Empathic Energy Manipulation]]
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**[[Empathic Energy Conversion]]
 
***[[Empathic Conversion]]
 
*[[Empathic Inundation]]
 
*[[Empathic Inundation]]
 
*[[Psychic Navigation]]
 
*[[Psychic Navigation]]
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*[[Intuitive Empathic Replication]] - Unlike [[Empathic Mimicry]] where the user simply channels and copies others powers, Intuitive Empathy gives that user the knowledge on how to use the ability intuitively.
 
*[[Intuitive Empathic Replication]] - Unlike [[Empathic Mimicry]] where the user simply channels and copies others powers, Intuitive Empathy gives that user the knowledge on how to use the ability intuitively.
 
*[[Lie Detection]] - Empaths can sense when a person is lying to them, as lying can cause an irregularity in one's emotions. More skilled users can pick out the lie and find the truth.
 
*[[Lie Detection]] - Empaths can sense when a person is lying to them, as lying can cause an irregularity in one's emotions. More skilled users can pick out the lie and find the truth.
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*[[Omnilingualism]] - User can speak, write, understand and communicate in any fluently language, and as such is potentially able to understand and communicate with anyone, even non-humans on an emotional level
 
*[[Psychometry]] - There are some places that have constant emotional residue (due to major events happening in that location war, death, historical moments, etc.). Some Empaths are able to tap into those emotional (lower level users that enter these places are overpowered involuntarily) imprints and re-experience those emotions as if they were happening in that moment. If skilled enough, some Empaths can also see the emotional echoes (images/residual ghosts) still there. This would be due to high levels of concentrated emotional energy.
 
*[[Psychometry]] - There are some places that have constant emotional residue (due to major events happening in that location war, death, historical moments, etc.). Some Empaths are able to tap into those emotional (lower level users that enter these places are overpowered involuntarily) imprints and re-experience those emotions as if they were happening in that moment. If skilled enough, some Empaths can also see the emotional echoes (images/residual ghosts) still there. This would be due to high levels of concentrated emotional energy.
 
*[[Tactile Empathy]] - Empaths can sense, understand and/or manipulate the emotions of others through physical contact.
 
*[[Tactile Empathy]] - Empaths can sense, understand and/or manipulate the emotions of others through physical contact.
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*[[Empathic Creation]]
 
*[[Empathic Creation]]
 
*[[Empathic Element Manipulation]]
 
*[[Empathic Element Manipulation]]
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*[[Empathic Force Manipulation]]
 
*[[Empathic Matter Manipulation]]
 
*[[Empathic Matter Manipulation]]
 
*[[Empathic Objects]]
 
*[[Empathic Objects]]
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===Television/Movies===
 
===Television/Movies===
 
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*Cognitive Interpreter (''Alphas'')
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**Agnes Walker
 
*Cordelia Chase (''Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel'')
 
*Cordelia Chase (''Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel'')
 
*Drusilla (''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'')
 
*Drusilla (''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'')
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*Aranea Serket (''Homestuck'')
 
*Aranea Serket (''Homestuck'')
 
*Spawn (''Image Comics'')
 
*Spawn (''Image Comics'')
*Sunset Shimmer (''Equestria Girls'')
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*Sunset Shimmer (''My Little Pony Equestria Girls'')
 
*Steven Universe (''Steven Universe'')
 
*Steven Universe (''Steven Universe'')
 
*Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth (''Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir'')
 
*Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth (''Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir'')
*April O'Neil (''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''; 2012 series)
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*April O'Neil (''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' 2012 series)
   
 
===Video Games===
 
===Video Games===
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*Mind Guardian (''Legacy of Kain'')
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**Nupraptor (''Legacy of Kain'')
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** Kain (''Legacy of Kain'')
 
*Vanitas (''Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep'')
 
*Vanitas (''Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep'')
 
*Black Doom (''Sonic the Hedgehog'')
 
*Black Doom (''Sonic the Hedgehog'')
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*[[bulbapedia:Hatterene (Pokémon)|Hatterene]] (''Pokémon'')
 
*[[bulbapedia:Hatterene (Pokémon)|Hatterene]] (''Pokémon'')
   
===Anime/Manga===
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===Anime/Manga/Manhwa===
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*[[w:c:denma:Eve|Eves]] (''Denma'')
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**[[w:c:denma:Cell|Cell]]
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**[[w:c:denma:Eve#Characters|Edrei's Eve]]
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**[[w:c:denma:Bon|Bon]]
 
*[[w:c:denma:Jay|Jay]] (''Denma''); via [[w:c:denma:Terminology#Emotion transferring bot|Emotion Transferring Bot]]
 
*[[w:c:denma:Jay|Jay]] (''Denma''); via [[w:c:denma:Terminology#Emotion transferring bot|Emotion Transferring Bot]]
 
*[[w:c:denma:El|El]] (''Denma''); via Little Emperor's Branding
 
*[[w:c:denma:El|El]] (''Denma''); via Little Emperor's Branding
 
*[[w:c:denma:Ran|Ran]] (''Denma''); via [[w:c:denma:Quanx#Control Transcriptomes|Control Transcriptomes]] [[w:c:denma:Quanx|Quanx]] ability
 
*[[w:c:denma:Ran|Ran]] (''Denma''); via [[w:c:denma:Quanx#Control Transcriptomes|Control Transcriptomes]] [[w:c:denma:Quanx|Quanx]] ability
*Kamado Tanjirou (''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba'')
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*[[w:c:kimetsu-no-yaiba:Tanjiro Kamado|Tanjiro Kamado]] (''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba'')
 
*Satoru Fujinuma (''Erased'')
 
*Satoru Fujinuma (''Erased'')
 
*Meredy (''Fairy Tail''); via Maguilty Sense
 
*Meredy (''Fairy Tail''); via Maguilty Sense
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==Gallery==
 
==Gallery==
 
 
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===Anime/Manga/Manhwa===
 
===Anime/Manga===
 
 
 
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Eves (Denma).png|Eves (Denma) share [[w:c:denma:Yahwah|Yahwah]]'s sad feelings.
 
Tanjirou's Empathy.gif|Whether they be human or demons, Kamado Tanjirou (Kimetsu no Yaiba) shows his empathy towards anyone.
 
Tanjirou's Empathy.gif|Whether they be human or demons, Kamado Tanjirou (Kimetsu no Yaiba) shows his empathy towards anyone.
 
Otohime (One Piece).png|Otohime (One Piece) specializes her ''Kenbunshoku/Observation Haki'' to sense the emotions of everyone around her.
 
Otohime (One Piece).png|Otohime (One Piece) specializes her ''Kenbunshoku/Observation Haki'' to sense the emotions of everyone around her.
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===Comics/Cartoon===
 
===Comics/Cartoon===
 
 
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<gallery>
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Sunset_Shimmer_ID_EGDS2.png|Sunset Shimmer (My Little Pony Equestria Girls'')
Sunset_Shimmer_singing_I_say_embrace_the_magic_EG4.png|Sunset Shimmer (Equestria Girls) develops this ability in the film, ''Legend of Everfree''.
 
 
File:Luna_Maximoff_(Earth-616)_from_All-New_Inhumans_Vol_1_11_001.png|Luna Maximoff (Marvel Comics)
 
File:Luna_Maximoff_(Earth-616)_from_All-New_Inhumans_Vol_1_11_001.png|Luna Maximoff (Marvel Comics)
 
Manthing2.jpg|Man-Thing (Marvel Comics)
 
Manthing2.jpg|Man-Thing (Marvel Comics)
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File:Meggan_fairies.png|Meggan Puceanu (Marvel Comics)
 
File:Meggan_fairies.png|Meggan Puceanu (Marvel Comics)
 
Hawk Moth Miraculous Ladybug.png|Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir) is able to empathically sense the negative emotions of everyday people, allowing his akumas to choose them for his corrupting influence.
 
Hawk Moth Miraculous Ladybug.png|Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir) is able to empathically sense the negative emotions of everyday people, allowing his akumas to choose them for his corrupting influence.
Steven Universe.png|Steven Universe (Steven Universe) not only possesses a natural empathy towards those around him,...
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Teen steven.png|Steven Universe (Steven Universe) not only possesses a natural empathy towards those around him,...
 
Cluster Bubble.gif|…but he is also able to feel the fear and erratic emotions of the Cluster, being able to telepathically make contact with it…
 
Cluster Bubble.gif|…but he is also able to feel the fear and erratic emotions of the Cluster, being able to telepathically make contact with it…
 
Ravenoyl.png|Raven (DC Comic) is a powerful empath.
 
Ravenoyl.png|Raven (DC Comic) is a powerful empath.
TMNT_2012_April_O'_Neil-12-.gif|April O'Neil (TMNT 2012 series)
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AprilFists.png|April O'Neil (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 series)
 
Spawn's_Empathy.jpg|Spawn (Image Comics) feeling the emotions of every person in New York City.
 
Spawn's_Empathy.jpg|Spawn (Image Comics) feeling the emotions of every person in New York City.
 
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Black Doom Sonic.jpg|Black Doom (Sonic the Hedgehog)
 
Black Doom Sonic.jpg|Black Doom (Sonic the Hedgehog)
 
Gardevoir.png|Even for a psychic Pokémon, Gardevoir (Pokémon) has very powerful empathic powers.
 
Gardevoir.png|Even for a psychic Pokémon, Gardevoir (Pokémon) has very powerful empathic powers.
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LOK_Kain.jpg|Kain (Legacy of Kain),as Scion of Balance, has the powers of the Mind Guardian,one of this powers is be "Hypersensitive to peoples' emotions and thoughts".
 
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[[Category:Powers]]
 
[[Category:Powers]]
 
[[Category:Supernatural Powers]]
 
[[Category:Supernatural Powers]]
[[Category:Non-Fighting Power]]
 
 
[[Category:Emotion-based Abilities]]
 
[[Category:Emotion-based Abilities]]
 
[[Category:Mental Power]]
 
[[Category:Mental Power]]
 
[[Category:Psychic Powers]]
 
[[Category:Psychic Powers]]
[[Category:Common Powers]]
 
 
[[Category:Spiritual Powers]]
 
[[Category:Spiritual Powers]]
 
[[Category:Galleries]]
 
[[Category:Galleries]]

Revision as of 17:55, 18 September 2020

"If you don't share someone's pain, you can never understand them."
― Nagato/Pain (Naruto)
"When we have the wisdom to use mercy and compassion instead of force...we human creatures will finally be on the path to perfection."
― Leslie Thompkins (DC Comics)

The power to fully interpret and replicate the emotions, moods, and temperaments of others. Sub-power of Emotion Manipulation. Opposite to Apathy.

Also Called

  • Emotion/Empathic Perception/Sense
  • Emotion Sharing

Capabilities

The user can fully interpret the emotions, moods, and temperaments of others without reading apparent symptoms, allowing them to understand introverts or discover one emotion is actually hiding another. They can attack someone in a personal and emotional way since they know exactly what emotion is flowing through themselves and can use this knowledge to play against them. Some users may learn to read emotional imprints left into environment or objects.

Usually over time, an Empath's power grows to the point that they can manipulate emotions on others, and possibly use them to empower themselves. The user may learn to extend their power over/on vast number of sentient beings or reach extreme distances, even other levels of existence but this may be possible only if the user has emotional link to those they search already in effect.

Applications

Techniques

Variations

Empathy has many branches of power, ranging from very weak to very advanced. As the user becomes more advanced, these branches may grow. Here are some levels that other empaths have displayed having/may gain:

  • Clairaudience - Some Empaths have displayed the ability to not only feel emotions, but also "hear" the heightened thoughts associated with that specific emotions. This is probably due to the fact that both cortices (emotional and mental) so closely relate to one another. An example would be if an empath senses two spouses aiming a lot of hatred towards one another. The empath might get the echo of thought along with that emotion (E.g. "I can't believe he's cheating on me after all these years"). However this is not to be confused with Telepathy. An Empath can only get visionary "echoes" related to certain emotions. They cannot read full memories.
  • Clairempathy - More advanced users of empathy have shown the ability to sense emotions over great distances such as cities, countries, continents, and other dimensions and planes (The Astral Plane AKA The Emotional Plane).
  • Clairvoyance - An Empath can forge an emotional connection with another being. If that connection stays opens, the Empath is able to sense when that person is in danger and is also able to locate them by their "emotional scent". To give you an better understanding of this, one could consider this the empathic version of "Vampiric Siring" (see "True Blood", "Buffy", "Moonlight", and "The Vampire Diaries" for an understanding of supernatural "Siring"). See also Sensory Scrying. Also could be used to sense/feel/detect spiritual/demonic beings, as well as feel the danger within a place.
  • Cosmic Empathy
  • Empathic Communication
  • Empathic Healing - This is a level that is somewhat rare and not many can master. Empaths can easily heal emotional wounds, but healing physical wounds is somewhat uncommon. When an Empath "heals" wounds that are physical, they don't heal the actual injury. The Empath simply takes the pain into themselves so the victim no longer feels that pain.
  • Empathic Illusion Casting - Empaths can create illusions based on certain emotions.
  • Empathic Mimicry - Higher level Empaths can use this power to tap into others' abilities. This is done by the Empath channeling someone and finding the exact emotion that triggers their power. The Empath, so long as they remember that emotion, is able to use/copy that person's power, and maybe even turn that power against the original user.
  • Empathic Power Absorption - Highly advanced Empaths can steal the powers of others for their own by using an associated emotion, leaving the victim powerless.
  • Empathic Power Randomization - Powerful Empaths can gain random powers based on their mood and emotions (gaining Regenerative Healing Factor or Invulnerability when scared, or Enhanced Strength when angry).
  • Empathic Projection - Some Empaths can develop the ability to project their own emotions onto others.
  • Intuitive Empathic Replication - Unlike Empathic Mimicry where the user simply channels and copies others powers, Intuitive Empathy gives that user the knowledge on how to use the ability intuitively.
  • Lie Detection - Empaths can sense when a person is lying to them, as lying can cause an irregularity in one's emotions. More skilled users can pick out the lie and find the truth.
  • Omnilingualism - User can speak, write, understand and communicate in any fluently language, and as such is potentially able to understand and communicate with anyone, even non-humans on an emotional level
  • Psychometry - There are some places that have constant emotional residue (due to major events happening in that location war, death, historical moments, etc.). Some Empaths are able to tap into those emotional (lower level users that enter these places are overpowered involuntarily) imprints and re-experience those emotions as if they were happening in that moment. If skilled enough, some Empaths can also see the emotional echoes (images/residual ghosts) still there. This would be due to high levels of concentrated emotional energy.
  • Tactile Empathy - Empaths can sense, understand and/or manipulate the emotions of others through physical contact.
  • Techno-Empathy - Empaths can sense the emotions of machines and other technology.
  • Telempathy - Empath can not only sense others emotions, but they can also send their own emotions to others. Users can communicate with one another emotionally and if skilled enough send "echoes" (ie: it means a quick glimpse of an images and thoughts, e.g. sending the emotion of love to another user and the receiver seeing an image of their loved one like a mother, child, or spouse) of images back and forth.
  • Visual Empathy - Empaths can see the moods and emotions of others.

Associations

Limitations

  • This does not have to be an actual power, but can be a skill/ability that can be developed, though it rarely reaches the same level as the actual power.
  • Defenseless against beings that have no emotions, such as robots or users of Apathy.
  • Users of Psychic/Empathic Shield (highly resistant) and Psychic Immunity (impervious).
  • Emotion locked users are immune.
  • May only be able to receive emotions.
    • Might get taken over and act on those emotions.
  • Inexperienced Empaths may find their powers completely useless in a fight.
  • May experience headaches.
  • May not be able handle large amounts of emotions at once.
  • May be easily possessed by Spirits and Ghosts, as they are beings bound by emotions.

Known Users

See also: The Empath.

Television/Movies

  • Cognitive Interpreter (Alphas)
    • Agnes Walker
  • Cordelia Chase (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel)
  • Drusilla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • Vengeance Demons (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • Empath Demons (Angel)
  • Krevlornswath of the Deathwok Clan (Angel)
  • Marcus (Angel)
  • Empaths (Charmed)
  • Phoebe Halliwell (Charmed)
  • Maggie Vera (Charmed 2018)
  • Prue Halliwell (Charmed); temporarily
  • Nick Stokes (CSI)
  • The Doctor (Doctor Who)
  • Aiden Lucas (Ghost Whisperer)
  • Beth Gordon (Ghost Whisperer)
  • Mary Anne Patterson (Ghost Whisperer)
  • Melinda Gordon (Ghost Whisperer)
  • Will Graham (Hannibal series)
  • Lydia (Heroes)
  • Sylar (Heroes)
  • Tim Roth "Dr. Lightman" (Lie to Me)
  • Emma de Lauro (Mutant X)
  • Tele-Empaths (Mutant X)
  • Darkseid (Smallville)
  • Sam Winchester (Supernatural)
  • Maya (Spirits TV series)
  • Betazoids (Star Trek)
    • Deanna Troi
  • Jedi (Star Wars)
  • Isabelle Tyler (The 4400)
  • Lily Tyler (The 4400)
  • Chloe King (The Nine Lives of Chloe King)
  • Cara Coburn (The Tomorrow People)
  • CJ Ward (Tower Prep)
  • Vampires (True Blood)
  • SCP-132-ARC (SCP Foundation)
  • Isolus (Doctor Who)
  • All Pokemon (Detective Pikachu)

Cartoons/Comics

  • Mento (DC Comics)
  • Miss Martian (DC Comics)
  • Raven (DC Comics)
  • Blackheart (Marvel Comics)
  • Psylocke (Marvel Comics)
  • Ahura Boltagon (Marvel Comics)
  • Cordelia Frost (Marvel Comics)
  • Manuel de la Rocha/Empath (Marvel Comics)
  • Jean Grey/Phoenix (Marvel Comics)
  • Rachel Summers (Marvel Comics)
  • David Haller/Legion/Susan in Sunshine (Marvel Comics); persona of Legion
  • Meggan Puceanu (Marvel Comics)
  • Luna Maximoff (Marvel Comics)
  • Mantis (Marvel Comics)
  • Aranea Serket (Homestuck)
  • Spawn (Image Comics)
  • Sunset Shimmer (My Little Pony Equestria Girls)
  • Steven Universe (Steven Universe)
  • Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)
  • April O'Neil (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 series)

Video Games

  • Mind Guardian (Legacy of Kain)
    • Nupraptor (Legacy of Kain)
    • Kain (Legacy of Kain)
  • Vanitas (Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep)
  • Black Doom (Sonic the Hedgehog)
  • Gardevoir (Pokémon)
  • Hatterene (Pokémon)

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

Literature

  • Tinisha Dolaira (The Young Guardians)
  • Kobe Shakur (Ripley's Bureau of Investigation)
  • Faes (Shadow Falls)
    • Hannah Brandon
    • Holiday Brandon
  • Derek Lakes (Shadow Falls)
  • Chameleons (Shadow Falls); via Species-Shifting to become faes
    • Kylie Galen
  • Axel (The Subject No. 1)
  • Jasper Hale (Twilight Saga)
  • Jessamine Hale (Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined)
  • Kaleb Helgusson (Kaleb)
  • David White (ONSET); via Aura Reading
  • Gallant (Worm)

Known Powers

Gallery

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

Comics/Cartoon

Literature

Video Games

Live Television/Movies