Reading Mastery

Enhanced Reading
Lucy Heartfilia (Fairy Tail) can read at incredible speeds using her Gale-Force Reading Glasses.
Power/Ability to:	Read at an inhumanly fast level

"Wait, wait, almost finished."

"Candace, you stayed up all night just to finish that book?"

"No, no. We finished the whole collection."

― Candance Flynn and Lawrence Fletcher (Phineas and Ferb)

"You have read enough fantasy novels to choke a hippogriff!"

― Bart Simpson (The Simpsons)

The power to read at an inhumanly fast level. Technique of Literary Manipulation.

Also Called

• Gale-Force Reading
• Speed Reading

Capabilities

The user can read at unrealistic speeds while still retaining all of the information read. They have intuitive knowledge on how to pronounce any word in a language that they know.

Applications

• Can quickly and thoroughly analyze large amounts of information.
• Can read a large book within seconds.
• Know how to read any word.

Associations

• Encyclopedic Knowledge
• Enhanced Intelligence
• Enhanced Memory
• Enhanced Speed
• Literary Manipulation

Limitations

• May not be able to understand what you read.
• Some users may develop slight headaches.
• May only be able to retain information temporarily.

Known Users

• The Doctor (Doctor Who)
• Users of Gale-Force Reading Glasses (Fairy Tail)
• Samuel (Fairy Tail)
• Kid Of Padre (Los Protegidos)
• Haruka Koumi (Rail Wars)
• Jack O'Neill (Stargate SG-1); when wearing the Atanik armband
• Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1); when wearing the Atanik Armband
• Superman/Clark Kent (DC Comics)
• The Flash (DC Comics)
• Chloe Sullivan (Smallville); when under Brainiac's influence
• Ozymandias (Watchmen)
• WordGirl (WordGirl)
• The Lone Wanderer (Fallout 3)
• The Courier (Fallout New Vegas)
• Dylan Piper (Halloweentown)
• Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
• Lore (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
• Rohit Mehra (Krrish series)
• Users of the Stream (Outer Limits)
• Aika Tenkuubashi (Shomin Sample)
• Kyouko Toshino (Yuru Yuri)
• Twilight Sparkle (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)

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Samuel (Fairy Tail) can read at high speeds.

The Flash (DC Comics) can temporarily assimilate knowledge through reading with his Super-Speed powers.

WordGirl (WordGirl!) has the ability to read very fast

Dylan Piper (Return to Halloweentown) uses magic to read rapidly.

Video

Smallville 8x03 Toxic IV-0

Chloe Sullivan (Smallville) reads and processes data at lightning speed while under Brainiac's influence.