The power to hear with amazing clarity. Variation of Enhanced Senses.
Also Called
- Hyperacusia
- Sharp Ears
- Sensitive Hearing
Capabilities
Users have ears enhanced to hear with amazing clarity, distance, and even frequencies outside normal range. Users ears can pick up every single sound, can decipher layer upon layer of differing sounds/conversations, locate the source of noise or pick up a sound from a mile away in a busy city.
Applications
- Accelerated Hearing: hear everything at an accelerated rate.
- Blindsight/Echolocation: by hearing the changes of sound.
- Infra-sound Hearing: Ability to hear infra-sounds which are below the normal hearing range, since infra-sounds are produced by several natural forces the user is able to sense natural disasters (earthquakes, volcanoes, etc.). Several machines produce these voices as well, so user could hear when they start malfunctioning.
- Lie Detection: by sensing changes in heartbeat, strain in voice, etc.
- Parabolic Hearing: Ability to focus hearing to certain area, or filter out everything but the wanted sound. Aural version of Telescopic Vision.
- Ultra Hearing: Ability to hear ultrasounds which are above the normal hearing range. These are mostly produced by animals, which gives notable edge for an hunter.
Associations
Limitations
- May be more sensitive to loud sounds.
- Noise can limit the distance of the user's hearing range or ability to detect minor sounds.
- Inaudibility and Silence Manipulation will make this power useless.
- Too many conversations around the user may make it difficult to find the right one to listen to unless if they have a method to easily distinguish them.
- Exact sensitivity and range of hearing varies by individual.
Known Users
Anime/Manga
- Dovewing (Warriors)
- D (Vampire Hunter D)
- Cobra (Fairy Tail)
- Wina Lightning (Last Exile)
- Piccolo (Dragon Ball Z)
- Zebra (Toriko)
- InuYasha (InuYasha)
- Akainu/Sakazuki (One Piece)
- Enel/Eneru (One Piece)
- Diva (Blood+)
- Melody (HunterXHunter)
- Mimi (Akame ga Kill)
- Motoki Yaze (Strike the Blood)
Cartoon/Comics
- Cadpig (101 Dalmatians: The Series)
- Daredevil (Marvel Comics)
- Wolverine (Marvel Comics)
- Sabertooth (Marvel Comics)
- Raymond Keyes (Marvel Comics)
- Spider-Man 2099 (Marvel Comics)
- Spider-Man/Peter Parker (Marvel Comics)
- Hulk (Marvel Comics)
- Sentry (Marvel Comics)
- Silver Surfer (Marvel Comics)
- Daken (Marvel Comics)
- Spider-Woman (Marvel Comics)
- Tigra (Marvel Comics)
- Captain America (Marvel Comics)
- Banshee (Marvel Comics)
- Black Panther (Marvel Comics)
- Man-Bat (DC Comics)
- Timber Wolf (DC Comics)
- Kryptonians (DC Comics)
- Pied Piper (DC Comics)
- Captain Carrot (DC Comics)
- Superman (DC Comics)
- Doomsday (DC Comics)
- Power Girl (DC Comics)
- Superboy (DC Comics)
- Supergirl (DC Comics)
- Wonder Woman (DC Comics)
- Animal Man (DC Comics)
- Superboy-Prime (DC Comics)
- Aquaman (DC Comics)
- Killer Croc (DC Comics)
- Arachnichimps (Ben 10)
- Spidermonkey (Ben 10)
- Vulpimancers (Ben 10)
- Wildmutt (Ben 10)
- Ultimate Wildmutt (Ben 10)
- Jake Long (American Dragon: Jake Long)
- Lexi Bunny (Loonatics Unleashed)
- Vampirella (Vampirella)
- Napoleon (The Aristocats)
- Hay Lin (W.I.T.C.H)
- Musa (Winx Club)
- Sami the Listener (The 99)
- N'Doul (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
Film/Television
- Dale Smither (Heroes)
- Sylar (Heroes)
- Lawrence Talbot (The Wolfman)
- Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Rachel Pirzard (Alphas)
- Godzilla (Godzilla)
- RoboCop (RoboCop)
- 2nd Brother (Ten Brothers)
- Spock (Star Trek)
- Poli Truper (Supertorpe)
- Saranelle "Sarah" Magalang (Kung Fu Kids)
- Chase Davenport (Lab Rats)
- Keira Beltrán (Los Unicos)
- Spark (Mighty Med)
- Isadora (Chica Vampiro)
- Werewolves (Teen Wolf)
- Roby Mejía (Yo Soy Franky)
- Larry Pearce (Masters of Horror)
- Judy Hopps (Zootopia)
- Nick Burkhardt (Grimm)
- Wendy Beauchamp (Witches of East End)
- Frederick Beauchamp (Witches of East End)
Videogame
- Deathclaws (Fallout)
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Link (The Legend of Zelda)
- Alex Mercer (Prototype)
- Solid Snake (Metal Gear)
- Kain (Legacy of Kain)
- Turel (Legacy of Kain: Defiance)
- Rayne (BloodRayne)
Literature
- Vampires (Shadow Falls)
- Della Tsang
- Chase Tallman
- Burnett James
- Jonathon
- Chameleons (Shadow Falls)
- Kylie Galen; occasionally so sensitive that she can hear things outside of vampire range
- Roberto Esparza
- Mario Esparza
- Werewolves (Shadow Falls)
- Lucas Parker
- Fredericka
- Selynn
- Cary Cannon
Miscaellenous
- The Angst (Channel Awesome)
- Tracker (PAW Patrol)
- Batsy Claro (Monster High)
- The Coraniaid (Welsh Mythology)
Gallery
Akainu's (One Piece) hearing is acute enough that he can hear activity underwater.
Diva's (Blood+) hearing is such that she can track others by the sound of their heartbeat.
Melody (HunterXHunter) possesses such acute hearing that she can easily track conversations and footsteps from up to one hundred meters away.
Lexi Bunny (Loonatics Unleashed) possesses superhuman hearing.
Daredevil (Marvel Comics) has excellent hearing.
Sami the Listener (The 99)
The Powerpuff Girls (The Powerpuff Girls)
The Angst (Channel Awesome) was exposed to cheicmcal liquid goo that "took away all his hearing, but also gave him super listening powers as well"
Cadpig's (101 Dalmatians: The Series) hearing is stronger than that of her brothers and sisters
Napoleon (The Aristocats) can discover various details about something just by listening to it.
Judy Hopps (Zootopia)
Supergirl (Supergirl) has enhanced hearing that makes her sensitive to powerful screams...
... to the point where she bleeds at the sound of Silver Banshee's sonic screaming.