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The power to perceive future events before they happen. Opposite to Retrocognition. Not to be confused with Event Experiencing.

Also Called

  • Foresight
  • Forward Knowing
  • Future Flash (Code Lyoko)
  • Future Evocation
  • Future Vision
  • Fortunetelling
  • Premonition
  • Prophecy

Capabilities

Users have the ability to 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.

Variations

  • Accelerated Probability: To predict the outcome of events.
  • 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 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.
  • Premonition (also known as 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 own intentions.
  • Time-Space Synesthesia: To transform music into visions of the future.
  • Xeno-Accelerated Probability

Associations

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 misunderstood of someone's true intentions.
  • May require being in a trance, asleep or unconscious to see the future.
  • Foretelling may be an involuntary action happening unexpectedly.
  • May only be able to see destiny, being unable to change events.
  • 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

  • Kakeru Satsuki (11eyes); via Eye of Aeon
  • Tharsis (Aldnoah.Zero)
  • Kiyoko (Akira)
  • Users of the Attack Titan's power (Attack on Titan)
  • 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")
  • Andre Gide (Bungou Stray Dogs)
  • Kamijou Touma (A Certain Magical Index)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Psykos (One-Punch Man)
  • Kusuo Saiki (Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan)
  • Sailor Mars (Sailor Moon)
  • Sailor Neptune (Sailor Moon)
  • Sailor Uranus (Sailor Moon)
  • 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)
  • 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

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"
  • Cassandra (Hercules: The Animated Series)
  • Billy (The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy); via Grim's scythe
  • Isi Dawndancer (Monster High)
  • Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
  • Maya (Redakai: Conquer the Kairu)
  • Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)
  • Garnet (Steven Universe)
  • Sapphire (Steven Universe)
  • April O'Neil (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series)
  • Dee Dee (Dexter's Laboratory)
  • Cassandra (Hercules: The Series)

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 (Arrowverse)
  • 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)
  • 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)

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)
  • Cassie Holmes (Push)
  • The Pop Girl (Push)
  • Jedi and 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
  • 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 (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

  • 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)
  • Ketty (The Medusa Project)
  • Horace Somnusson (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children)
  • Rachel Elizabeth Dare (Percy Jackson series); as Oracle of Delphi
  • Andros Eagrie (Red Queen)
  • Jon (Red Queen)
  • Gold-Eye (Shade's Children)
  • Daenerys Targaryen (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • 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)
  • Ruby Kane (Kane Chronicles)
  • Jimmy Gresham (The Berinfell Prophecies)

Mythology/Folklore

  • Oracle of Delphi (Greek Mythology)

Other

Known Objects

  • Time TV (Doraemon)
  • Dice (Freaky)
  • Future Diaries (Future Diary)
  • Sword of Sanctuary (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
  • Time Gem (Marvel Comics)
  • Tachyon Machine (Tomorrowland)
  • Monado (Xenoblade Chronicles)
  • Relic of Choice (RWBY)
  • Crystal Glasses (Xiaolin Showdown)
  • Millennium Necklace (Yu-Gi-Oh)

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