Precognition

Precognition
Sakunosuke Oda's (Bungo Stray Dogs) supernatural ability - Flawless allows him to perceive up to 5 seconds into the future, though this power can automatically activate when his life is in danger.
Power/Ability to:	Perceive future events.

The power to perceive future events. Sub-power of Extrasensory Perception. Not to be confused with Event Experiencing. Opposite to Retrocognition.

Also Called

• Antecognition
• Foresight
• Forward Knowing
• Future Flash (Code Lyoko)
• Future Evocation/Prediction/Sight/Vision
• Future-Oriented
• Fortunetelling
• Oracle Physiology
• Precognitive Sight/Vision
• Premonition
• Prophetic Vision 
• Prophecy
• Yondersight

Capabilities

Users can foresee possible futures and observe what may happen. As knowledge of the future invariably causes that future to change, visions of the future are subject to frequent shifting. While not being able to select futures or travel through time, these visions may assist in possible courses of action.

Universe Differences

Some visions may be set in stone whether or not you see them, others may happen only if the players select a certain course of action. This depends mainly on whether or not users are viewing Destiny or Probability.

Applications

• Aim Dodging
• Attack Prediction
• Attack Reversal
• Causality Perception
• Combat Perception
• Danger Intuition
• Death Sense
• Destiny Perception
• Defense Prediction
• Domino Effect
• Evasion
• Future Life Awareness
• Path to Victory
• Prescience
• Enhanced Preparedness/Supernatural
• Time Synchronicity

Techniques

• History Recording: to understand person's future history.
• Future Life Awareness: To know of one's future lives.
• Future Recollection: To intuitively know what will happen.

Variations

• Accelerated Probability: To predict the outcome of events.
  • Causality Perception: To see cause and effect within every future event.
• Astral Premonition: To see future events, all while during in an out-of-body experience.
• Astrological Divination (also known as Stargazing): To identify the future by observing celestial entities. When the user watches the clear night sky their mind psychically calculates the starry array yielding ominous or hopeful prospects.
• Danger Intuition: To see into the immediate future, user has no direct control over the power and is only triggered when there is immediate danger.
• Death Sense: To detect who was going to die and when their death will occur, but may not be able to prevent it.
• Destiny Perception: To perceive destiny/fate.
• Divination: Gain insight of future events by the use of occult ritual.
• Empathic Precognition: To receive precognitive flashes of the future when exposed to extreme emotion.
• Flash Precognition: To see things seconds or minutes before they happen.
• Flawless Precognition: To flawlessly see the future with no mistakes.
• Future Life Awareness: To be aware of one's future lives.
• Life Perception
• Numerology: To predict the future and as well as influence it with the use of mathematics, user can read the future with numbers.
• Objective Precognition: To perceive future events based on others intentions.
• Precognitive Artistry: To paint, draw, or sketch the future subconsciously. The user can trigger the power by entering some sort of trance paint what they are "seeing" on a blank canvas/paper.
  • Precognitive Crafting: To craft the future subconsciously.
• Precognitive Corpse Detection: To see corpse that will appear in the future.
• Precognitive Dreaming: To perceive future in dreams, whether symbolic, direct or from the perspective of another being.
• Precognitive Power Replication: To replicate the powers and abilities of others while looking into the future.
• Precognitive Smelling: To perceive the future through one's own sense of smell.
• Precognitive Speech: To predict the future by speech.
• Presentiment: To gain information about future events that is perceived as emotion.
• Prescience: To have instinctive foreknowledge of future.
• Prescient Reflexes: To have automatic reflexes which also inherently know and react to the future.
• Subjective Precognition: To perceive future events based on the users or others decisions.
• Textual Precognition: To perceive the future through written text.
• Time-Space Synesthesia: To transform music into visions of the future.
• Xeno-Accelerated Probability

Associations

• Astral Premonition
• Intuitive Precognition
• Magic
• Parachronal Cognition
• Precognition Manipulation
• Precognitive Power Replication
• Psychometry
• Seer

Limitations

• Precognitive Immunity makes the user unseen in any and/or various predictions.
• Can cause great strain to the user's mind.
• Can't see what has already happened, unless the user has Retrocognition or Chrono Vision.
• Unless they can read a person's thought/emotions, the user can misunderstand someone's true intentions.
• May require being in a trance, asleep or unconscious to see the future.
  • On occasion other forces can mess with a user's psychic power (via arguing) causing the user to experience a frozen vision or vision freeze.
• Foretelling may be an involuntary action happening unexpectedly.
• May only be able to see destiny, being unable to change events.
• May only be able to see probability, meaning the future they see may not come to pass or be different in some aspects.
• Visions may be more similar to dreams, difficult to remember, or decipher.
• May be behave like a reverse memory, wherein the nearest futures or most important future events are the most vivid.
• May be limited by how far into the future they can see.
• May be uncontrollable and unpredictable.
• May only be able to see a certain aspect of the future.

Known Users

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Kakeru Satsuki (11eyes); via Eye of Aeon
• Tharsis (Aldnoah.Zero)
• Kiyoko (Akira)
• Users of the Attack Titan's power (Attack on Titan)
  • Eren Kruger
  • Eren Yeager
  • Grisha Yeager
• Amber (Darker than Black)
• Cayenne Suzushiro (Aquarion Evol)
• Sven Vollfied (Black Cat)
• Yhwach (Bleach)
• Soul King (Bleach)
• Sakunosuke Oda (Bungou Stray Dogs)
• Saiki Kusuo (Saiki Kusuo No Sai Nan)
• Sakunosuke Oda (Bungo Stray Dogs)
• Andre Gide (Bungo Stray Dogs)
• Kamijou Touma (A Certain Magical Index)
• Aki Hayakawa (Chainsaw Man); via the Future Devil
• Ante (Corrector Yui)
• Devarims (Denma); via Precognitive Dreaming
• Son Goku (Dragon Ball)
• Bardock (Dragon Ball Z); via "Future Punch"
• All Kanassans (Dragon Ball Z)
• Shagotte (Fairy Tail)
• Carla (Fairy Tail)
• Cana Alberona (Fairy Tail); via Fortune Telling
• J.J. Robinson (Gatchaman Crowds)
• Takuma Fudou (Get Backers)
• Honey (Hamatora)
• Neon Nostrade (Hunter x Hunter); via Lovely Ghostwriter
• Chrollo Lucilfer (Hunter x Hunter); via Lovely Ghostwriter
• Yume Furusuna (Instant Bullet)
• Rosa (Jewelpet series)
• Vinegar Doppio/Diavolo (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo); via Eulogy/Epitaph
• Souta Hatate (Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara)
• Mitsuru Kamekura (Kara no Kyoukai)
• Uni (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!)
• Kagaya Ubuyashiki (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
• Ganman (Kinnikuman)
• Gods (Kubera); via Insight
• Seijūrō Akashi (Kuroko no Basket); via Emperor's Eye
• Kuroko Tetsuya (Kuroko no Basket); via Quasi-Emperor's Eye
• Yuki Nagato (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
• Takeshi Nanase (Mahou Sensou)
• Shizune Seo (Mirai Fukuin, Kara no Kyoukai)
• Yuno Gasai (Mirai Nikki)
• Keigo Kurusu (Mirai Nikki)
• Reisuke Hojou (Mirai Nikki)
• Tsubaki Kasugano (Mirai Nikki)
• Azami Kirisaki (Mirai Nikki)
• Yukiteru Amano (Mirai Nikki)
• Marie Parfacy (Mobile Suit Gundam 00); via effect from Pure GN-Particle of 00 Raiser
• Sir Nighteye (My Hero Academia)
• Gamamaru (Naruto)
• Millie (The New Gate)
• Users of Strong Kenbunshoku/Observation Haki (One Piece)
  • Charlotte Katakuri
  • Monkey D. Luffy
• Psykos (One-Punch Man)
• Kusuo Saiki (Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan)
• Sailor Mars (Sailor Moon)
• Sailor Neptune (Sailor Moon)
• Sailor Uranus (Sailor Moon)
• Buddah (Shuumatsu no Valkyrie: Record of Ragnarok)
• Hwaryun (Tower of God)
• Guide (Tower of God)
• Baltra Liones (The Seven Deadly Sins)
• Akira Seo (Tsukihime)
• Yuichi Jin (World Trigger)
• Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen (World Witches/Strike Witches)
• Users of Deflection Shooting ability (World Witches/Strike Witches)
  • Hanna-Justina Marseille
  • Gundula Rall (Brave Witches)
• Whitford "Whit" P. Allgood (Witch and Wizard)
• Kakyō Kuzuki and Kotori Monou (X/1999)
• Aiko Chikushu (Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches); via kiss
• Maria Sarushima (Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches); via kiss
• Ao Nanami (Yozakura Quartet)

Comics

• Aleem the All Knowing (The 99)
• Martian Manhunter (DC Comics)
• Miss Martian (DC Comics)
• Midnighter (WildStorm/DC Comics)
• Dream Girl (DC Comics)
• Clock King II (DC Comics)
• Various Metahumans (DC Comics)
• Various Mutants (Marvel Comics)
  • African American mutants
  • Asian mutants
  • Hispanic mutants
  • Native American mutants
  • White mutants
• Irene Adler/Destiny (Marvel Comics)
• David Haller/Legion/The Fiend/"Charles Xavier" (Marvel Comics); persona of Legion
• Nate Grey (Marvel Comics)
• Ahura Boltagon (Marvel Comics)
• Ruth Aldine/Blindfold (Marvel Comics)
• Luna Maximoff (Marvel Comics)
• Moksha Sect (Marvel Comics)
• Adam Destine (Marvel Comics)
• Practitioners of the Hercules Method (The Strange Talent of Luther Strode)
• Jonathan Osterman/Doctor Manhattan (Watchmen)
• Oracle/Himerish (W.I.T.C.H.)
• Mister Invincible (Imbattable)

Cartoons

• Roger Smith (American Dad)
• Sara and Kara (American Dragon: Jake Long)
• Theresa (Class of the Titans)
• Odd Della Robbia (Code: Lyoko); via ability called "Future Flash"
• Clairvoyance Users (Danny Phantom)
  • Clockwork
• Madeline Hatter (Ever After High)
• Billy (The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy); via Grim's scythe
• Cassandra (Hercules: The Animated Series)
• Party Crasher (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir)
• Isi Dawndancer (Monster High)
• Maya (Redakai: Conquer the Kairu)
• Peekablue (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)
• Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)
• Garnet (Steven Universe)
• Sapphire (Steven Universe)
• Dee Dee (Dexter's Laboratory)
• Tuna Sandwich (Kid Cosmic); via the Red Stone of Power

Live Television

• Maia Rutledge (The 4400)
• Raina (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
• Cordelia Foxx (American Horror Story: Coven)
• Valeria (Ángel o Demonio)
• Whistler (Angel)
• Allen Francis Doyle (Angel)
• Mar Novu/The Monitor (Arrowverse)
• Cisco Ramon/Vibe (The Flash)
• Bo Adams (Believe)
• Helena Kyle (Birds of Prey)
• Ra-ham (Black)
• Drusilla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Cordelia Chase (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel)
• Phoebe Halliwell (Charmed)
• Melinda Warren (Charmed)
• The Crone (Charmed)
• Kyra (Charmed)
• The Seer (Charmed)
• Maggie Vera (Charmed 2018)
• Miles Macklin/AWOL (Danger Force)
• Roxie Torcoletti (Eastwick)
• Bun Waverly (Eastwick)
• Cisco Ramon (The Flash/DC Comics)
• Characters with FlashForwards (FlashForward)
• Destiny Rumancek (Hemlock Grove)
• Byron Bevington (Heroes)
• Angela Petrelli (Heroes)
• Peter Petrelli (Heroes)
• Issac Mendez (Heroes)
• Gabriel Gray/Sylar (Heroes)
• Usutu (Heroes)
• Matt Parkman (Heroes)
• Jethro Kabigting (Immortal TV Series)
• Trixie (Lobo TV series)
• Joshua Silburn Jr. (The Messengers)
• Boris Diaz/Timeline (Mighty Med)
• Simon Bellamy (Misfits)
• Precognitives (Mutant X)
• Rona Catacutan (OkaTokat)
• Trip (Power Rangers Time Force)
• Eve (The Sarah Jane Adventures)
• Sam Winchester (Supernatural)
• Raven Baxter (That's So Raven)
• Reverend Jim Ignatowski (Taxi)
• Visitors (Ultraman Nexus)
• Daichi's Gomora (Ultraman X); as a Spark Doll
• Demaaga (Ultraman X); as a Spark Doll
• Clyde Bruckman (The X-Files)
• Puppet (The X-Files)
• Zack Greenburg (The Zack Files); one off via glasses
• Tokiwa Sougo (Kamen Rider Zi-O)
• Kakogawa Hiryu/Another Zi-O (Kamen Rider Zi-O)
• Booker Baxter-Carter (Raven’s Home; inherited from Raven)
• Nia Baxter-Carter ("Raven's Home"; temporarily from her brother)
• Lydia Martin ("Teen Wolf")
• Meredith Walker ("Teen Wolf")
• Lorraine Martin ("Teen Wolf")

Movies

• Dr. Louise Banks (Arrival)
• Miles (Avalon High)
• The Old Witch (Big Fish)
• Jalil (Dream Warrior)
• Nick O'Bannon (The Final Destination) †
• Alex Browning (Final Destination) †
• Kimberly Corman (Final Destination 2)
• Wendy Christensen (Final Destination 3) †
• Sam Lawton (Final Destination 5) †
• The Virgin Oracle Phaedra (Immortals)
• Abigail Carver (The Last Keepers)
• Rhea Carver (The Last Keepers)
• Oracle (The Matrix)
• Agatha, Arthur, Dashiell (Minority Report)
• Cris Johnson (Next)
• Quartermaster (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides)
• Watchers (Push)
  • Cassie Holmes
  • The Pop Girl
  • Cassie's Mother
• Jedi (Star Wars)

Sith (Star Wars)

Video Games

• Wraith (Apex Legends)
• Gaaki (BIONICLE); via mask of precognition
• Vakama (BIONICLE)
• Jodie Holmes (Beyond: Two Souls)
• Higgs Monaghan (Death Stranding)
• Vex (Destiny)
  • Oracles
• Ryeogang (Fantasy War Tactics)
• Cole MacGrath (inFAMOUS)
• Theresa (Fable)
• Lucas Kane (Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy)
• Max Caulfield (Life is Strange); via time jumps
• Nicole Brennan-Clarke (Paradox Saga)
• Jirachi (Pokemon)
• Pokemon that can use "Future Sight" (Pokemon)
• Protagonist (Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky); via "Dimensional Scream"
• Paul Serene (Quantum Break)
• John Vattic (Second Sight)
• Alessa (Silent Hill series)
• Runys Pointy Boots (Skylanders)
• Linda Chanda (Starshine Legacy)
• Shine Hausen (Super Robot Wars)
• Cassandra (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Oracle (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Lich King (Warcraft)
• Shulk (Xenoblade Chronicles)
• Alvis (Xenoblade Chronicles)
• Mythra (Xenoblade Chronicles 2)

Literature

• Jimmy Gresham (The Berinfell Prophecies)
• Arelia Valentin (The Caster Chronicles)
• Agnes Nutter (Good Omens)
• Jimena Castillo (Daughters of the Moon series)
• John Smith (The Dead Zone)
• Demiguise (Harry Potter)
• Sybill Trelawney (Harry Potter)
• Ruby Kane (Kane Chronicles)
• Aerunians (Los Hechiceros del Dragon)
• Ketty (The Medusa Project)
• Horace Somnusson (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children)
• Rachel Elizabeth Dare (Percy Jackson series); as Oracle of Delphi
• Emily the Emerald Fairy (Rainbow Magic); via Emerald
• Andros Eagrie (Red Queen)
• Jon (Red Queen)
• Gold-Eye (Shade's Children)
• Daenerys Targaryen (A Song of Ice and Fire)
• Piper (Star Darlings)
• Nathan Rahl (Sword of Truth)
• Shota (Sword of Truth)
• Alice Cullen (Twilight)
• Medicine cats, leaders (Warriors)
• Fiver (Watership Down)
• NightWings (Wings of Fire)
• Simurgh (Worm)
• Hen Wen (The Chronicles of Prydain)
• Number Eight (Lorien Legacies)

Mythology/Folklore

• Oracle of Delphi (Greek Mythology)

Other

• The Vision (The Fear Mythos)
• Scions (The Fear Mythos)
• Rose Lalonde (Homestuck)
• Terezi Pyrope (Homestuck)
• The Demiurge/The God of Flesh/Važjuma/Saklas/Samael/God-Eater/Devourer/His Undulating Vastness/The Great Winnower/The God of Flesh/Nüwa/The Dragon in the Great Brass Cage/Yaldabaoth (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-411 - Ancient Precog (SCP Foundation); via Age Reversal
• SCP-990 - Dream Man (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-1548 - The Star, the Hateful (SCP Foundation)
• Aaron Siegal (SCP Foundation)
• Sophia/Olympia/Subject/Zero/Olympia Zero/The Original/Europa (SCP Foundation)
• Merlin (Stupid Mario Brothers)

Known Objects

• Time TV (Doraemon)
• Dice (Freaky)
• Future Diaries (Future Diary)
• Sword of Sanctuary (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
• Time Gem (Marvel Comics)
• Time Stream (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
• Emily's Emerald (Rainbow Magic)
• Relic of Choice (RWBY)
• SCP-711 - Paradoxical Insurance Policy (SCP Foundation)
• Tachyon Machine (Tomorrowland)
• Suiguutou (Twelve Kingdoms)
• Monado (Xenoblade Chronicles)
• Crystal Glasses (Xiaolin Showdown)
• Millennium Necklace (Yu-Gi-Oh)

Gallery

The Tharsis' (Aldnoah.Zero) Aldnoah Drives precognitive abilities allows the pilot to see into the future through its screen and evade enemy fire.

Oracle Twins (American Dragon: Jake Long) being descendants of the Oracle of Delphi can see the future with Sara can only see the negative things while Kara only sees the positive things.

Wraith (Apex Legends) can foresee incoming danger thanks to her abiliity to communicate with her alternate universe counterparts.

Users of the Attack Titan (Attack on Titan), such as Eren Yeager, can see the memories of their successors or even future selves, and be influenced by them.

Yhwach's (Bleach) "The Almighty" grants him tremendous precognition powers, allowing him to see almost all possible futures, Mimihagi being his one known blindspot.

According to Yhwach, the The Soul King's (Bleach) precognitive powers surpass even his own.

Maggie Vera (Charmed 2018) can see the future after being in contact with black amber.

Phoebe Halliwell (Charmed) having a premonition.

Odd Della Robbia (Code: Lyoko) formely had this ability called "Future Flash" but Jeremie had accidentally deleted this ability when he rebooted the supercomputer and never reprogrammed it since it was, according to him, "useless".

The Vex Oracles (Destiny) can see the future that the Vex desire and expunge all others that do not fit their world.

Time TV (Doraemon)

Roxie (Eastwick) sees her own death.

Carla (Fairy Tail) foresaw an unbelievable future.

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)

Diavolo's sub-Stand, Epitaph/Eulogy (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V/5: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo) correctly and flawlessly predicting the next 10 seconds of the future with no mistakes.

Luna Maximoff (Marvel Comics)

The Fiend/"Charles Xavier" (Marvel Comics) persona of Legion.

Yuki Nagato (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya) has the ability to predict future events and able to sense anything before it happens.

Simon (Misfits) using "Foresight"…

…to see the future events.

Having mastered it to the very pinnacle, Charlotte Katakuri (One Piece) can see 5 seconds into the future with his Kenbunshoku/Observation Haki.

With his Kenbunshoku/Observation Haki continuously increasing during his duel with Charlotte Katakuri, Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece) found he could peer slightly into the future.

Relic of Choice (RWBY) grants its user visions of the future. Visions are random and cannot be controlled.

John Vattic (Second Sight) could prevent his beloved ones to die by interacting in -and seeing- the future.

Linda Chanda (Starshine Legacy)

Garnet (Steven Universe)

Raven Baxter (That's So Raven) having a vision of the future.

Due to being in many fights with magicians and espers, Kamijou Touma (Toaru Majutsu no Index) managed to subconsciously develop his own variation of Precognition.

Alice Cullen (Twilight) is able to see the future based upon a person's decisions.

Cassandra (Valkyrie Crusade) is a great elf prophet.

Oracle (Valkyrie Crusade)

Simurgh (Worm)

Shulk (Xenoblade Chronicles)

Crystal Glasses (Xiaolin Showdown)

April O’Neil (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012)

Ruth Aldine/Blindfold and Irene Adler/Destiny (Marvel Comics) can see events destined to occur and experiences precognitive visions.

Timeline's (Mighty Med) psychic powers that can see into the future. However he can be wrong on occasion. Because he knows what will happen, he uses this as he helps other heroes fight evil and won every fantasy football league he's ever been in, due to his psychic powers.

Diavolo's sub-Stand, Eulogy/Epitaph (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo)

Theresa (Class of the Titans)

Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars) was so strong with the Force that as a child to an adult he could see visions of the future, especially in his dreams.

Cisco Ramon/Vibe (The Flash) vibing abilities also allow him to predict the future.

Clockwork (Danny Phantom) is a powerful Clairvoyance User who can locate any person in time upon whom he concentrates and see multiple futures of a person.

Videos

SCP-990 Dream Man (SCP Animation)