Telepathy

Telepathy
Professor Charles "X" Xavier (Marvel Comics) is possibly one of the strongest telepaths to have ever lived.
Power/Ability to:	Mentally receive and/or transmit information.

"Your mind, to me, is an open book: full of big print and lots of pictures!"

― Maldis, Farscape

"Secrets? What secrets?"

― Magic: The Gathering, Telepathy

"Do not be startled, child. My voice is in your mind, not in your ear. Verbal communication is so limited. You will find that telepathy is purity."

― Mage: The Ascension - Core Rulebook (1st edition)

The power to mentally receive and/or transmit information. Users of this power are often called Telepaths or Mind Readers.

Also Called

• Legilimency
• Mental Surfing
• Mind Induction
• Psyche Probe
• Thought-Casting
• TP

Capabilities

User can read/sense another person's thoughts, communicate with them mentally or affect, and otherwise interact with their minds/thoughts. Telepathy has two common abilities or categories; Telepathic Communication, which is the ability to transmit information from one mind to another and Telepathic Perception, which is the ability to receive information from another mind knowing an opponent’s moves and attacks.

Applications

Similar to "Telekinesis", "Telepathy" is an umbrella term for any ability that involves projecting, reading and manipulating thoughts.

Basic Level

• Mind Reading/Thought Detection: The ability to read/sense the thoughts of others.
  • Visual Mind Reading: The ability to see the thoughts of others.
  • Memory Reading: The ability to read the target's memories.
    • Visual Memory Reading: The ability to see memories of others.
• Psychic Communication: The ability to open up secret conversations and relay covert information.
• Empathy: The ability to interpret the emotions of others.
  • Telempathy: The ability to communicate through emotions.
  • Visual Empathy: The ability to see emotions of others.
• Telepathic Speaking: The ability to speak aloud using only the mind.

Advanced Level

• Binding: The ability to restrict the movements of others via the mind.
• Download: The ability to quickly process, store, or download information through another's mind.
• Dream Walking: The ability to enter people's dreams.
• Emotion Manipulation: The ability to make one feel pleased, happy, pained, or any other emotion.
• Knowledge Projection: The ability to project knowledge into another mind.
  • Telepathic Language Instruction: The ability to teach languages telepathically.
• Knowledge Replication: The ability to replicate the learned knowledge and skills of others.
• Mental Hallucination: The ability to cause mental hallucinations.
  • Telepathic Invisibility: The ability to become invisible via telepathy.
• Mental Inducement: The ability to temporarily push the targets mind into the wanted state.
• Mind Control: The ability to manipulate the minds of other via thought process.
• Mind Image: The ability to project one's image to the mind of another.
• Mind Link: The ability to develop a permanent mental bond with any person, also called imprinting.
• Mind Melding: The ability to fuse one's consciousness with another.
• Mind Walking: The ability to enter the mind of another.
• Omnilingualism: The ability to intuitively understand all languages.
  • Telepathic Translation: The ability to translate all languages.
  • Intuitive Multilingual:  The ability to intuitively translating and learning new languages, including alien languages.
• Psionic Inundation: The ability to launch psi-bolts to cause mental damage.
  • Neurocognitive Deficit: The ability to shut down an opponent's higher brain function.
  • Telepathic Static: The ability to project telepathic static.
• Psychic Inhibitors: The ability to place inhibitors in the mind to limit the target's capabilities.
• Psychic Navigation: The ability to create a mental map of the area.
• Psychic Shadow: The ability to mask psychic presence, hiding from other psychics.
• Psychic Shield: The ability to erect a psychic shield to protect the minds of oneself and/or others.
• Psychic Torture: The ability to torture victims mentally and spiritually.
• Pushing: The ability to implant memories, thoughts, and emotions into others.
• Sensory Scrying: The ability to perceive through the senses of other beings.
• Speaking Inducement: The ability to make others say whatever one wants.
• Telepathic Aura: The ability to project telepathic field.
• Telepathic Hijacking: The ability to hijack telepathic communication.
• Telepathic Language Instruction: The ability to project language information to others to communicate.
• Telepathic Prediction: The ability to know an opponent's moves and attacks by reading their brain waves.
• Telepathic Relay: The ability to act as a mental relay station for a group of minds, allowing said minds to "speak" to one another through the user.
• Thought Manifestation: The ability to make one's thoughts visible to all.
• Thought Manipulation: The ability to control the thoughts of others.

Master Level

• Clairtelepathy: The ability to detect mental resonances from other locations and times.
• Consciousness Transferal: The ability to transfer one's mind to a new body.
• Darkside View: The ability to communicate with and bring out the dark side of a person's personality.
• Lightside View: The ability to communicate with and bring out the good side of a person's personality.
• Memory Manipulation: The ability to erase, restore and alter the target's memories.
• Mental Manipulation: The ability to manipulate functions of the mind.
• Mind Exchange: The ability to transfer one's mind into another's body, taking control of that body.
• Possession: The ability to project one's mind into the body of a living being to inhabit and control them.
• Projective Omnilingualism: The ability to emit a field that translates every spoken language.
• Psychic Energy Manipulation: The ability to produce and manipulate mental energy.
  • Psychic Constructs: The ability to generate constructs out of mental energy.
• Psychic Wave Manipulation: The ability to generate and manipulate thought waves.
• Psychosomatic Illusion: The ability to create powerful illusions that may cause severe physical damage.
• Remote Telepathy: The ability to use telepathy from a long range.
• Subconscious Manipulation: The ability to manipulate the subconscious.
  • Subliminal Messaging: The ability to implant thoughts/ideas into the subconscious
• Telepathic Dilation: The power to water down the abilities of others by blocking neurological signals.
• Telepathic Surgery: The ability to perform neuropsychic surgery, healing and/or damaging the mind.

Ultimate Level

• Cosmic Empathy: The ability to interpret the emotions of billions or more subjects at once.
• Cosmic Telepathy: The ability to read the thoughts of billions or more subjects at once.
• Mental Projection: The ability to project thoughts into reality.
• Mindscape Transportation: The ability to transport physical matter into one's conscious or subconscious thoughts.
• Neural Jumpstart: The power to augment another's abilities by accelerating neuronal activity.

Absolute Level

• Mindscape Materialization: The ability to will one's thoughts and their inner world into reality.
• Omni-Empathy: The ability to sense and feel an infinite number of emotions across all universes, planes and dimensions.
• Omni-Telepathy: The ability to read, sense, communicate with, and control an infinite number of minds across all universes, planes and dimensions.
• Unimind: The ability to be connected with all things and their essences.

Techniques

• Telepathic Combat: The ability to use telepathy in physical combat.
• Telepathic Intelligence: The ability to heighten one's intelligence using telepathy.

Variations

• Animal Telepathy
• Ballistic Telepathy
• Electrical Telepathy
• Energy Telepathy
• Genetic Telepathy
• Magical Telepathy
• Spiritual Telepathy
• Tactile Telepathy
• Technological Telepathy
• Telepathic Dream Creation
• Telepathic Force Manipulation
• Temporal Telepathy

Levels

• Basic Level: User can sense minds from feet/meters away. They can sense consciously generated thoughts.
• Advanced Level: User is able to sense minds from a community scale. The user can sense subconscious memories and thoughts.
• Expert Level: The user is able to sense minds from kilometers to a continental scale. They can manipulate the thoughts and feelings of every individual within such a distance.
• Master Level: User is able to sense minds on a planetary scale, every being across a planet and even nearby worlds. They can manipulate the functions of the mind.
• Ultimate Level: They can sense minds on a galactic level. The user can manipulate the body, mind, and everything related to them.
• Absolute Level: User can sense minds on a universal scale or even beyond. They can manipulate everything that makes up their individuality.

Associations

• Astral Manipulation - many stronger telepaths derive power from the plane to bolster themselves.
• Clairvoyance
• Dream Manipulation
• Mental Shield Penetration
• Psychological Intuition
• Telepathic Mimicry

Limitations

• Does not work on mindless beings (corpses, animated objects, robots, etc.).
• Users of Psychic Shield (highly resistant) and Psychic Immunity (impervious).
• The more intense the thought, the louder it sounds to the user.
• May be limited to a certain range to work, including touch only.
• May be limited to a certain number of targets at a time.
• May be constantly active and have to constantly hear thoughts.
  • Since the user constantly hears thoughts, this power becomes ineffective in large crowds.
• May be limited to the thought(s) which the target is currently thinking.
• May be limited to reading either thoughts or memories.
• May not be able to read impulsive actions.
• May get overwhelmed by too many thoughts, especially the ones which are too complicated (e.g. a genius' mind which is doing calculus), detailed (e.g. an artist's or photographer's mind which has a photographic memory), insane/morally corrupted (e.g. "murder is good", "I will create my idea of the perfect world by genocide", etc.), and/or ones which don't make any sense (e.g. "2+2=5", "a square circle", etc.).
  • Users of Divided Mind may be especially complicated because of so many conflictual thoughts in one mind.
• Depending upon the user's ability, skill, and tolerance, attempting to read certain minds (e.g. genius or the insane) may be hard, impossible, or not a good idea.
• Unless one is multilingual or has the automatic ability to translate and/or decrypt, the ability may not work if the target is thinking in alternate languages or encrypted codes.
• May risk detection, losing themselves, and/or being "hacked" themselves.
• May need focus all their attention on the task, thereby leaving their physical body and/or mind vulnerable.
• May be susceptible to the pain/injury as the person with whom they are communicating.
• Requires concentration.
• If someone is singing a tune in their mind, the user will have a hard concentrating.

Known Users

See Also: Telepathy and Real Telepathy.

Cartoons

• Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant (Adventure Time)
• Goliad (Adventure Time)
• Vampire King (Adventure Time)
• Giant Lion-Turtle (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
• Tamara Caulder (Batman Beyond)
• Amperi (Ben 10 series)
  • Ampfibian
  • Ra'ad
• Anodites (Ben 10 series)
• Gwen Tennyson (Ben 10 series)
• Ventrilosquid (Ben 10: Omniverse)
• Sir George (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien)
• Ma-Ti (Captain Planet)
• Theresa (Class of the Titans)
• Elsa (Creepschool)
• Agent Honeydew (Dexter's Laboratory)
• Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)
• Everseer (The Incredibles)
• Psychwave (The Incredibles)
• Mohajah (Jackie Chan Adventures)
• Amazo (Justice League Unlimited)
• Water Civilization (Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters)
• Bart Simpson (The Simpsons)
• Marge Simpson (The Simpsons)
• Brainy Barker (Krypto the Superdog)
• Neuro (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
• Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)
• Nathalie Sancoeur/Mayura (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)
• Elton (Monster Buster Club)
• Scarah Screams (Monster High)
• Discord (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
• Sunset Shimmer (My Little Pony: Equestria Girls)
• Kira (Phantom Investigators)
• Pops (Regular Show)
• Telepathic Spiders (Rick and Morty)
• Fart (Rick and Morty)
• Fox Alistair (RWBY)
• Madelyn Spaulding (Static Shock)
• Horde Prime (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power); limited to those connected to his Hive Mind
• Steven Universe (Steven Universe)
• Tyler (Supernoobs)
• Blorgon (Supernoobs)
• April O'Neil (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series)
• Dr. Tyler Rockwell (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series)
• Soundwave (Transformers (G1))
• Taranee Cook (W.I.T.C.H.)
• Halinor (W.I.T.C.H.)
• Mind Reader Conch users (Xiaolin Showdown)

Comics

• Betta George (Angel: After the Fall)
• Sadecki Demons (Angel: After the Fall)
• Gold the Tenrec (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Silver the Hedgehog (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Evil Ernie (Chaos!/Dynamite Comics)
• Montgomery Knox (Charmed comic)
• Aquaman (DC Comics)
• Captain Comet (DC Comics)
• Dubbilex (DC Comics)
• Manchester Black (DC Comics)
• Esper Lass (DC Comics)
• Gorilla Grodd (DC Comics)
• Hector Hammond (DC Comics)
• Hitman (DC Comics)
• Icon (DC Comics)
• Kryptonians (DC Comics)
• Maxima (DC Comics)
• Martians (DC Comics)
• Mento (DC Comics)
• Psimon (DC Comics)
• Saturn Girl (DC Comics)
• Tempest (DC Comics)
• Tomorrow Woman (DC Comics)
• Composite Superman (DC Comics)
• Matthew Callahan/Threshhold (Image/Wildstorm Comics)
• Nicole Callahan/Bliss (Image/Wildstorm Comics)
• Team 7 (Image/Wildstorm Comics)
  • Jackson Dane/Arclight
  • Mark Slayton/Backlash
  • Stewart Chang/Bulleteer
  • Micheal Cray/Deathblow
  • Cole Cash/Grifter
  • John Lynch/Topkick
  • Alexander Fairchilde/Slaphammer
  • Micheal Callahan/Wraparound
• Apocalypse (Marvel Comics)
• Black Bolt (Marvel Comics)
• Blindfold (Marvel Comics)
• Ahura Boltagon (Marvel Comics)
• Astrid Bloom (Marvel Comics)
• Lizard (Marvel Comics)
• Cable (Marvel Comics)
• Chamber (Marvel Comics)
• Cosmo (Marvel Comics)
• Stepford Cuckoos (Marvel Comics)
• Emma Frost/White Queen (Marvel Comics)
• Galactus (Marvel Comics)
• The Goblin Queen (Marvel Comics)
• Jean Grey/Phoenix (Marvel Comics)
• Karma (Marvel Comics); limited
• Little Mary (Marvel Comics)
• David Haller/Jemail Karami/Tyrannix the Abominoid/Gestalt/Legion (Marvel Comics)
• Franklin Richards (Marvel Comics)
• M.O.D.O.K. (Marvel Comics)
• Mantis (Marvel Comics)
• Meggan (Marvel Comics)
• Monet St. Croix (Marvel Comics)
• Professor Charles Xavier (Marvel Comics)
• Psylocke (Marvel Comics)
• Quentin Quire (Marvel Comics)
• Sage (Marvel Comics)
• Amahl Farouk/The Shadow King (Marvel Comics)
• Rachel Summers/Marvel Girl/Phoenix (Marvel Comics)
• Nate Gray/X-Man (Marvel Comics)
• Exodus (Marvel Comics)
• Todd Ingram (Scott Pilgrim)
• Sasuke the Demon Queller (Usagi Yojimbo)
• Bleeding Monk (Valiant Entertainment)
• Peter Stancheck (Valiant Entertainment)
• Toyo Harada (Valiant Entertainment)
• Vampirella (Vampirella)

Movies

• Space Jockeys (Aliens franchise)
• Belial (Basket Case)
• Duane Bradley (Basket Case)
• Rage (Dream Warrior)
• Uncle Bene (Escape to Witch Mountain/Return from Witch Mountain); Humans, animals, other aliens
• Tia and Tony Malone (Escape to Witch Mountain/Return from Witch Mountain); Humans, animals, other aliens
• Sheng Yayu/Emotionless (The Four)
• Guiron (Gamera vs Guiron)
• Virasians (Gamera vs Viras)
• Jobe Smith (The Lawnmower Man)
• Scarlet Witch (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
• Siu May (Mermaid Got Married)
• Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
• The Tall Man (Phantasm)
• Jeremy Reed (Powder)
• Sara (Race to Witch Mountain)
• Tyler Burns (Skyrunners)
• Brain Bugs (Starship Troopers)
• Freya McAllister (Thoughtcrimes)
• Ali Davis (What Men Want); men only via hitting her head on the bar counter
• Nick Marshall (What Women Want); women only via electrocution
• Charles Xavier/Professor X (X-Men)
• Emma Frost (X-Men)
• Jean Grey/Phoenix (X-Men)
• The Children's (Village of the Damned)

Literature

• Andalites (Animorphs)
• Anyone in morph (Animorphs)
• Crayak (Animorphs)
• Ellimist (Animorphs)
• Howlers (Animorphs)
• Iskoort (Animorphs)
• No. 2 (Record the Quanx - Denma S.E. - The Love Sick); via Telepathy Quanx ability
• Carrie White (Carrie)
• Phoners (Cell)
• Eustacia Yewbeam (Children of the Red King)
• Serena Killingsworth (Daughters of the Moon series)
• Alec Warrdon (The Eidolon Saga)
• Linnea Wallin (Engelsfors)
• Dragon riders and their dragons (Inheritance Cycle)
• Magicians (Inheritance Cycle)
• Laura Leander (Laura and the Secret of Aventerra)
• Mary Morgain (Laura and the Secret of Aventerra)
• Edythe Cullen (Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined)
• Ella/Number Ten (Lorien Legacies)
• Isarians (Los Hechiceros del Dragon)
• Angel (Maximum Ride)
• Bradley (The Medusa Project)
• Ed (The Medusa Project)
• Whispers (Red Queen)
  • Elara Merandus
  • Samson Merandus
• Faes, chameleons, elves, ghost-whispering supernaturals & spirits (Shadow Falls)
• Rhysand (A Court of Thorns and Roses)
• Feyre Archeron (A Court of Thorns and Roses)
• Telepaths (Keepers of the Lost Cities)
  • Sophie Foster
  • Alden Vacker
  • Fitz Vacker
  • Prentice Endal
  • Gethen
• Telepaths (The Sookie Stackhouse Novels)
  • Barry The Bellboy
  • Hunter Savoy
  • Sookie Stackhouse
• Sage (Star Darlings)
• Pennywise the Dancing Clown/It (Stephen King's It)
• Edward Cullen (Twilight series)
• Jayfeather (Warriors series)
• Dr. Tachyon (Wild Cards series)
• NightWings (Wings of Fire)
• Gregory Kennedy (The Young Guardians)

Live Television

• Fiona Goode (American Horror Story: Coven)
• Nan (American Horror Story: Coven)
• Bo Adams (Believe)
• Joshua Carpenter (Believe)
• Danni (Believe)
• Jacob Eckstein (Believe)
• Shawn (Believe)
• The Master (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer); temporarily
• Telepath Demons (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Some Demons (Charmed)
  • Litvack
  • Raynor
  • Shadow Demon
  • The Source of All Evil
  • Spider Demon
  • The Triad
• Elders (Charmed)
• Enola (Charmed)
• Christy Jenkins (Charmed)
• Telepaths (Babylon 5)
  • Psi Corps
• Whitelighters (Charmed); limited to charges
• Zachary (Charmed)
• Margarita "Maggie" Vera (Charmed 2018)
• Catalina Bladimof (Chica Vampiro)
• The Eight Legs (Doctor Who)
• Gas Mask Zombies (Doctor Who)
  • Jamie/The Empty Child
• The Host (Doctor Who)
• Krynoids (Doctor Who)
• The Ood (Doctor Who)
• Raxacoricofallapatorians (Doctor Who)
  • Slitheen
• Sensorites (Doctor Who)
• Silurians/Homo Reptilia (Doctor Who); via third eye
• Time Lords (Doctor Who)
• Roxie Torcoletti (Eastwick)
• Bun Waverly (Eastwick)
• Lazoons (Fireball Xl5)
  • Zoonie
• River Tam (Firefly)
• Dominic Lance/Brainstorm (The Flash)
• Clifford DeVoe/The Thinker (The Flash)
• Ezra Colbert (Haven)
• Charles Deveaux (Heroes)
• Matt Parkman (Heroes)
• Maury Parkman (Heroes)
• Arthur Petrelli (Heroes)
• Tezuka Miyuki (Kamen Rider Ryuki)
• Listeners (Legend of the Seeker)
• Toby Logan (The Listener)
• Lucia (Los Protegidos)
• Keira Beltrán (Los Unicos)
• NeoCortex (Mighty Med)
• Kelly Bailey (MisFits)
• Lourenço Braga (Morangos Com Açúcar 4); temporarily
• Telepaths (Mutant X)
• George Sunday/Thermoman (My Hero) temporarily, via the power of Mascara
• Daphne Powell (No Ordinary Family)
• Xybrians (Power Rangers Time Force)
  • Trip
• Jeggorabax Energy Entity (The Sarah Jane Adventures)
• Pancha McCaskill (Silversun); via her brain implant
• Ryan James (Smallville)
• Clark Kent (Smallville); temporarily
• Species 8472 (Star Trek)
• Vulcans (Star Trek)
  • Spock
• Gary Mitchell (Star Trek: The Original Series)
• Teyla Emmagan (Stargate Atlantis); through her Wraith DNA
• The Wraith (Stargate Atlantis)
• Wraithkin (Stargate Atlantis)
• Adria (Stargate SG1)
• Eggar (Stargate SG1)
• Khalek (Stargate SG1)
• Angels (Supernatural)
• Missouri Moseley (Supernatural)
• Poli Truper (Supertorpe)
• Banshees (Teen Wolf)
  • Lydia Martin
  • Meredith Walker
• Homo Superiors (The Tomorrow People)
• CJ Ward (Tower Prep)
• Anthony Fremont (The Twilight Zone)
• Grandma (The Twilight Zone)
• Various Ultramen and aliens (Ultramen)
• Merrill Young and Patsy LaRue (Vampire High)
• Sky (Gabby Duran & the Unsittables); via touch
• The Ancients (Stargate franchise)
• David Haller/Legion (Legion)
• Amahl Farouk/Shadow King (Legion)
• Oliver Bird (Legion)

Anime/Manga/Manhwa/Manhua

• Akira (Akira)
• The Espers (Akira)
• Lady Miyako (Akira)
• Tetsuo Shima (Akira)
• Seiya Kanie (Amagi Brilliant Park); only works once with each person per day.
• Fleet of Fog (Arpeggio of Blue Steel)
• Devils (Bastard!!)
• Dark Schneider (Bastard!!)
• Schierke (Berserk)
• Ivan Whisky/Cyborg 001 (Cyborg 009)
• Users of Telepathy Quanx ability (Denma)
  • Internal Affairs agent
• Road Kamelot's (D.Gray-man)
• Wisely Kamelot (D.Gray-man)
• Babidi (Dragon Ball Z)
• Goku (Dragon Ball Z)
• Kanassans (Dragon Ball Z)
• King Kai (Dragon Ball Z)
• Namekians (Dragon Ball Z)
• Hell Fighter 17 (Dragon Ball GT)
• Brain (Fairy Tail)
• Simon (Fairy Tail)
• Warren (Fairy Tail)
• Those with the Voice of all Things (One Piece)
• Vampires (Hellsing)
• Several characters (Heroic Age)
• Goshinki (InuYasha)
• Haruka Koutora (Kotoura-san)
• Takeshi Nanase (Mahou Sensou)
• Kiyoharu Suirenji (Mahou Shoujo Site)
• Mizou Yukuhashi (Medaka Box)
• Kousuke Seto (Mekakucity Actors)
• Migard Tribe (Mushoku Tensei)
• Kaito and Daichi Shiratori (Mob Psycho 100)
• Momozo Takenaka (Mob Psycho 100)
• Shino Sosaki ("My Hero Academia")
• Ino Yamanaka (Naruto)
• Inoichi Yamanaka (Naruto)
• Mewtwo (Pokémon)
• Sabrina (Pokémon)
• Yellow (Pokémon Adventures)
• Yugo Gilbert (Project ARMS)
• Liliana Masquerade (Re:Zero)
• Reinhard van Astrea (Re:Zero)
• Several characters (Saint Seiya)
• Earthia (Sonic X)
• Anya (Spy X Family)
• Jake Martinez (Tiger & Bunny)
• Shokuhou Misaki (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
• Meiko Ōtsuka (Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches); via kiss
• Ao (Yozakura Quartet)
• Kusuo Saiki (Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan)
• Hiei (Yu Yu Hakusho)
• Kazuma Kuwabara (Yu Yu Hakusho)
• Murota (Yu Yu Hakusho)
• Maximillion Pegasus (Yu-Gi-Oh!); via Millennium Eye
• Dufort (Zatch Bell!)
• Nowaki Hotaru (Zettai Karen Children)

Video Games

• Mind Guardian (Legacy of Kain)
  • Nupraptor (Legacy of Kain)
  • Kain (Legacy of Kain)
• Vampires (Legacy of Kain)
• Mortanius (Legacy of Kain)
• Jodie Holmes/Aiden (Beyond: Two Souls)
• Hivemind (Dead Space)
• Marker (Dead Space)
• Furons (Destroy All Humans)
  • Cryptosporidium 137-139
• Pact Partners (Drakengard)
• The Watchers (Drakengard)
• Disciples (Drakengard 3)
• Ninten/Ken (Earthbound Beginnings/Mother)
• Paula (Earthbound/Mother 2)
• Alma Wade (F.E.A.R. series)
• Mint Blancmanche (Galaxy Angel)
• Combine Advisors/Shu'ulathoi (Hλlf-Life 2 series)
• Herrscher of the Void (Honkai Impact 3rd)
• Dracula (Honkai Impact 3rd)
• Kessler (inFAMOUS)
• Sasha (inFAMOUS)
• John White (inFAMOUS)
• Bloody Mary (inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood)
• Hades (Kid Icarus)
• Palutena (Kid Icarus)
• Viridi (Kid Icarus)
• Lingering Sentiment (Kingdom Hearts)
• Sona (League of Legends)
• Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda)
• Princess Zelda (The Legend of Zelda)
• Fi (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)
• Akira Tadokoro (Live-A-Live)
• Lucius (Lucius)
• Mallow (Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars); via Psychopath
• Chakron (Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story)
• Dr. Toadley (Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story)
• Psycho Mantis (Metal Gear Solid)
• Elisa and Ursula (Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops)
• Mother Brain (Metroid)
• Ermac (Mortal Kombat)
• Kenshi (Mortal Kombat)
• Takeda Takahashi (Mortal Kombat)
• Ghosts (Murdered: Soul Suspect)
• Ronan O'Connor (Murdered: Soul Suspect)
• Exeggcute (Pokemon)
• Mewtwo (Pokémon)
• The Keepers (Prey)
• Sarah and Tanya Blake (Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy)
• Razputin (Psychonauts)
• John Vattic (Second Sight)
• Jayne Wilde (Second Sight)
• Zenner Children (Second Sight)
• Blastermind (Skylanders); uses a variation of this power while driving a vehicle
• Master Eon (Skylanders)
• Hex (Skylanders)
• Black Doom (Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Chip/Light Gaia (Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Doctor Timothy (South Park: The Fractured But Whole)
• Krystal (Star Fox)
• Ghosts (Starcraft)
• Satori Komeiji (Touhou)
• The Guardian (Ultima)
• Kamal Re'x (Universe at War)
• Esper (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Minister Sucia (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Saga (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Androids (Detroit: Become Human)

Web Comics

• Tavros Nitram (Homestuck)
• Aranea Serket (Homestuck)
• Vriska Serket (Homestuck)

Web Original

• SCP-795 - Reality-Bending Cat (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-1470 - Telepathic Spider (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-1564 - Post-Nibbanic (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-1849 - Telepathic Parrot (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-1867 - A Gentleman (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-1956 - The Gnomes (SCP Foundation)4
• SCP-2634 - A Higher Power (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-2664 - Redline (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-2682 - The Blind Idiot (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-2764 - The Eldritch Antarctic (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-2870-A - General Malaise (SCP Foundation)

Other

• Toa Kongu (BIONICLE); via Kanohi Suletu
• Female Skrall (BIONICLE)
• Fox Alistair (RWBY)

Known Objects

• Goruda Brain Tonic (Doctor Who)
• Infi-Map (Danny Phantom)
• Mind Gem (Marvel Comics)
• SCP-484 - Memory Stealing Drug (SCP Foundation)
• Mind Reader Conch (Xiaolin Showdown)
• Metebelis crystal (Doctor Who)

Gallery

Cartoons

Verdona (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien)

Gwen Tennyson (Ben 10: Alien Force)

Max Tennyson (Ben 10: Alien Force)

Amperi (Ben 10: Alien Force) can sense the electrical pulses in the minds of other life forms, allowing them to read their thoughts.

Agent Honeydew (Dexter's Laboratory)

Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir) is able to telepathically communicate with those he akumatizes.

Nathalie Sancoeur/Mayura (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir) is able to telepathically communicate with those she amokizes.

Steven Universe (Steven Universe)

April O'Neil (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series)

Dr. Tyler Rockwell (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series)

Mind Reader Conch (Xiaolin Showdown) allow thee user to hear the thoughts of others.

Brainy Barker (DC Comics/Krypto the Superdog)

Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls) can read people's thoughts as he is the master of the mind

Infi-Map (Danny Phantom) can read a person's thoughts when they make physical contact with it; however, it needs to make tactical/close contact to do so. Clothing doesn’t act as a barrier to this version of the ability, meaning the map does not need skin-to-skin contact to make a telepathic connection.

From Martian Manhunter, Amazo (JLU) can read the minds of others.

Comics

Betta George (Angel: After the Fall) possesses such psionic power that his mental abilities can even affect vampires.

A Sadecki Demon (Angel: After the Fall)

Gold the Tenrec (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)

The Martian Manhunter (DC Comics)

White Martians (DC Comics)

Maxima (DC Comics) telepathically communicates with Superman underwater.

Manchester Black (DC Comics)

Saturn Girl (DC Comics)

Composite Superman (DC Comics) possesses Saturn Girl's telepathy.

Cole Cash/Grifter (Image/Wildstorm/DC Comics)

Apocalypse (Marvel Comics)

Cable (Marvel Comics)

Psylocke (Marvel Comics)

Jean Grey (Marvel Comics)

Initially limited to reptiles, the Lizard's (Marvel Comics) telepathic abilities later evolved to enable him to commune with and control humans through their "lizard brain", inducing fear in Spider-Man...

...forcing humans to act out their primal urges...

...and inducing them to brutalize Spider-Man.

Emma Frost (Marvel Comics)

The Goblin Queen (Marvel Comics)

Mantis (Marvel Comics)

The Stepford Cuckoos (Marvel Comics)

Cosmo (Marvel Comics)

Movies

Guiron (Gamera vs Guiron) uses telepathic waves to control his shuriken.

Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street) can read the minds of his victims in order to use their fears and personalities against them.

Sara (Race to Witch Mountain)

Literature

Edward Cullen (Twilight) is a telepath and can read people's thought's from several miles away.

After being exposed to the Genesis Spell, Gregory Kennedy (Young Guardians) can hear another person's thoughts.

Live Television

Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Christy Jenkins (Charmed) is a powerful telepath.

Maggie Vera (Charmed 2018)

Cisco Ramon/Vibe (DC Comics)

The Eight Legs (Doctor Who)

The Ood (Doctor Who) are a highly telepathic species.

Time Lords (Doctor Who)

Lazoons (Fireball XL5) like Zoonie are Semi-Telepathic.

Matt Parkman (Heroes) can read minds.

Kelly (Misfits) has this ability until she sold it.

Daphne Powell (No Ordinary Family)

Trip (Power Rangers Time Force)

The Wraith (Stargate) normally use this ability to communicate with each other.

Cara Coburn (The Tomorrow People) is a homo superior specialized in Telepathy.

CJ Ward's (Tower Prep) Perception ability extends into reading others' thoughts and feelings.

Anthony Fremont (Twilight Zone) is capable of hearing the thoughts of an entire town.

Grandma (Twilight Zone) mind reading.

From Dominic Lanse, DeVoe (Arrowverse) gained telepathic powers to detect the presence of all, as he immediately became aware of Cisco Ramon "vibing" him and place a "blockage" in Caitlin Snow's mind, making it more difficult for her to reach her Killer Frost side.

NeoCortex (Mighty Med) telepathic abilities allow him to telepathy/mentally communicate with people and read a person's mind.

Anime/Manga/Manhwa/Manhua

Road Kamelot's (D.Gray-man) ability of "Dream" grants her powerful telepathic capabilities, such as mind reading, and projecting her thoughts into her opponent either for communication or to break down their minds completely.

Wisely Kamelot (D.Gray Man) uses his "Demon eye" to contact other Noah members and contact Road, even to other dimensions.

Babidi (Dragon Ball)

Namekians (Dragon Ball)

With her mysterious eye, Zorin (Hellsing) can read minds and souls and use them to determine what illusions work best on her victims.

Like his father, Momonosuke (One Piece) has the telepathic ability to hear the voice of all things.

Mu Aries (Saint Seiya) has telepathic abilities.

Earthia (Sonic X)

Thanks to the Jagan, Hiei (Yu Yu Hakusho) possesses telepathic abilities.

Murota's "Wire Tape" (Yu Yu Hakusho) allowed him to hear what his opponent's thoughts and predict their attacks within 30 meters.

Video Games

The Combine Advisors/Shu'ulathoi (Hλlf-Life 2 series) can use Telepathy in and out of combat, communicating with their subordinates and using telepathic attacks to cause mental pain.

Kessler (inFAMOUS)

Princess Zelda (The Legend of Zelda)

Fi (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)

Dr. Toadley (Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story)

Psycho Mantis (Metal Gear Solid)

Elisa and Ursula (Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops)

Mother Brain (Metroid)

The Guru (Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves) possesses a certain degree of telepathy, as seen when he bridges both Sly's and Panda King's minds and when he read Panda King's mind in order to discover why he was in a complete state of peace.

Black Doom (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Chip/Light Gaia (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Satori Komeiji (Touhou) Sickness in Everyone's Heart.

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Esper (Valkyrie Crusade) is a girl that has supernatural abilities, including teleportation, telekinesis and telepathy.

Minister Sucia (Valkyrie Crusade)

Saga (Valkyrie Crusade) has s voice so bewitching that she communicates through telepathy.

Kain (Legacy of Kain),has the powers of the Mind Cuardian,can commune with his mind and read the minds of others,he also has Empathy,being "Hypersensityve to peoples emotions" and he can control minds