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"This is the best damn thing that ever happened to me. Well, now that I've learned to control it, I'm like Superman or something. I can hear rain coming from forty miles away. I can even hear someone's moods, the tiniest changes in a heartbeat."
― Dale, Heroes

The power to possess extremely accurate senses. Sub-power of Enhanced Condition and Sense Manipulation.

Also Called

  • Advanced Senses
  • Heightened Senses
  • Hyper-Senses
  • Increased Perceptions
  • Strengthened Senses

Capabilities

The user has extremely accurate senses, allowing them to see, hear, smell, taste, and/or touch more than an average member of their species.

Applications

  • Enhanced Synesthesia: Perceive multiple different sensory or cognitive responses at once.
  • Illusion Awareness: Many illusion will affect only certain senses but lack in others, for example an illusion might lack a smell or have no heartbeat.
  • Sense Focusing: Focus senses to look for a particular sight/sound/smell/taste and blocking out all others.

Variations

The Five Senses:

  • Enhanced Hearing: Ears pick up every single sound, and can decipher layer upon layer of noise; has the ability to pick up a conversation from a mile away in a busy city. May even mutate into Echolocation.
  • Enhanced Smell: Users can detect specific smells, and locate their origin. Some may even be able to tell if someone is lying by which hormones they excrete.
  • Enhanced Taste: Users may be able to detect poisons or other problems. Some may even be able to do so by simply tasting the chemicals in the air as opposed to using their mouth to making physical contact with an object.
  • Enhanced Touch: Some can feel so acutely that to rub the users hand on a paper would be like reading the page, sensing every bump ripple or wave. Some may even be able to tell of distant occurrences felt through vibrations in the air and ground.
  • Enhanced Vision: Can see with amazing clarity/detail, distance, or color, perhaps even in a different spectrum of light or into other dimensions.

Other Senses:

Levels

  • Peak Human Senses: Users senses are near superhuman.
  • Enhanced Senses: Users senses are extremely accurate.
  • Supernatural Senses: Users senses are supernaturally acute.
  • Absolute Senses: Users senses are enhanced to universal scale.

Associations

Limitations

  • Overloading may be a frequent occurrence.
  • Magic may cause interference.
  • Drugs or other means can negate or remove these senses unless they are reversible.

Known Users

See Also Super Senses.

  • Tinisha Dolaira (The Young Guardians)
  • Titan/Arion McGrath (The Guardians Saga)
  • Jack Carver (Far Cry Instincts)
  • Dovepaw (Warriors)
  • The Amys (Replica)
  • Raxacoricofallapatorians (Doctor Who)
    • Slitheen
  • Time Lords (Doctor Who)
  • Daredevil (Marvel Comics)
  • Thornn (Marvel Comics)
  • Stick (Marvel Comics)
  • Wolfsbane (Marvel Comics)
  • Wolverine (Marvel Comics)
  • Sabertooth (Marvel Comics)
  • Wild Child (Marvel Comics)
  • Feral (Marvel Comics)
  • Drax The Destroyer (Marvel Comics)
  • Hulk 2099 (Marvel Comics)
  • Hawkeye (Ultimate Marvel Comics)
  • Beast (Marvel Comics)
  • Captain America (Marvel Comics)
  • Prince Wayfinder (Marvel Comics)
  • Cable (Marvel Comics)
  • Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)
  • Wolfsbane (Marvel Comics)
  • Silver Surfer (Marvel Comics)
  • Thor (Marvel Comics)
  • X-23 (Marvel Comics)
  • Nightcrawler (Marvel Comics)
  • Namor (Marvel Comics)
  • Iron Man (Marvel Comics)
  • Catseye (Marvel Comics)
  • Rocket Raccoon (Marvel Comics)
  • Tigra (Marvel Comics)
  • Sunspot (Marvel Comics)
  • Dormammu (Marvel Comics)
  • Icon (DC Comics)
  • Bizarro (DC Comics)
  • Hawkman (DC Comics)
  • Animal Man (DC Comics)
  • Killer Croc (DC Comics)
  • Wonder Woman (DC Comics)
  • Martian Manhunter (DC Comics)
  • Superboy (DC Comics)
  • Supergirl (DC Comics)
  • Power Girl (DC Comics)
  • Starfire (DC Comics)
  • Darkseid (DC Comics)
  • Timber Wolf (DC Comics)
  • Phantom Stranger (DC Comics)
  • Captain Carrot (DC Comics)
  • Doomsday (DC Comics)
  • Superman (DC Comics)
  • Pantha (DC Comics)
  • Dale Smither (Heroes)
  • Sylar (Heroes)
  • Protagonist Characters (Fallout series); via Perception Skill & various perks
  • Wildmutt (Ben 10)
  • Toph Beifong (Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra); not counting eyesight
  • Clement MacDonald (Torchwood Children of Earth)
  • Elves (Lord of the Ring Series)
  • Vampires (Twilight)
  • Vampires (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel)
  • Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • Faith Lehane (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • Vampires (Being Human)
  • Werewolves (Being Human); briefly, before and after transformation
  • Doggie Cruger (Power Rangers SPD)
  • Toby aka Astro (Astro Boy)
  • Will (Power Rangers Operation Overdrive)
  • Spidermonkey (Ben 10: Alien Force/Ultimate Alien)
  • Ultimate Spidermonkey (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien)
  • Calvin Porter (Mutant X); hearing
  • Shalimar Fox (Mutant X)
  • Angelface (Wild Cards series)
  • Rachel Pirzad (Alphas)
  • Muhktar (Aladdin: the Animated Series)
  • Cobra (Fairy Tail)
  • Tenpouin Yuuki (Code: Breaker); sound
  • Toriko (Toriko); smell
  • Coco (Toriko); sight
  • Sunny (Toriko); touch
  • Zebra (Toriko); hearing
  • Lickers (Resident Evil)
  • Gon (Hunter x Hunter)
  • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad (Assassin's Creed)
  • Ezio Auditore da Firenze (Assassin's Creed)
  • Haytham Kenway (Assassin's Creed)
  • Edward Kenway (Assassin's Creed)
  • Ratonhnhaké:ton (Assassin's Creed)
  • Shay Cormac (Assassin's Creed)
  • Desmond Miles ('Assassin's Creed')
  • Lexi Bunny (Loonatics Unleashed)
  • Inspector Gadget (Inspector Gadget)
  • Vanessa Brewer (Angel)
  • Viera (Final Fantasy)
  • InuYasha (InuYasha)
  • Yoshis (Super Mario series)
  • Goku (Dragon Ball)
  • Saiyans (Dragon Ball)
  • Melina Gold (Silver Moon Chronicles)
  • Tsunayoshi Sawada (Katekyo Hitman Reborn); via Vongola Super Intuition
  • D (Vampire Hunter D)
  • Donna Dunlap (Heroes)
  • Turbo Mecha Sonic (Super Mario Bros. Z)
  • Superman X (Legion of Super-Heroes/DC Comics)
  • Itachi Uchiha (Naruto)
  • Alucard (Hellsing)
  • Ben Tennyson (Ben 10)
  • Spawn (Image Comics)
  • Solid Snake (Metal Gear)
  • Alex Mercer (Prototype)
  • Xenomorphs (Alien/Alien vs. Predator)
  • Predators (Predator/Alien vs. Predator)
  • Terminators (The Terminator)
  • Sara Pezzini (Witchblade)
  • Durham Red (2000 AD)
  • RoboCop (RoboCop)
  • Mister Majestic (WildStorm)
  • Vampirella (Vampirella)
  • Vegeta (Dragon Ball)
  • Piccolo (Dragon Ball)
  • Dracule Mihawk (One Piece)
  • Godzilla (Godzilla)
  • Baraka (Mortal Kombat)
  • Scooby-Doo (Scooby-Doo)
  • Kain (Legacy of Kain)
  • Raziel (Legacy of Kain)
  • Dark Claw (Amalgam Comics)
  • Illyria (Angel)
  • Akasha (The Vampire Chronicles)
  • Rayne (BloodRayne)
  • Sajin Komamura (Bleach)
  • Swatbots (Sonic the Hedgehog)
  • Boba Fett (Star Wars)
  • Link (The Legend of Zelda)
  • Samus Aran (Metroid)
  • Spock (Star Trek)
  • Tasmanian Devils (Sonic the Hedgehog)
  • Wombat Stu (Sonic the Hedgehog)
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)
  • Rolf (Ed, Edd, n' Eddy)
  • G-Girl (My Super Ex-Girlfriend)
  • Saranelle "Sarah" Magalang (Kung Fu Kids)
  • Vampires and werewolves (Shadow Falls)
  • Experiment 626 "Stitch" (Lilo & Stitch)
  • Josh and Sophie Newman (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel)
  • Black☆Star (Soul Eater)
  • Free (Soul Eater)
  • Chase Davenport (Lab Rats)
  • Maddy Smith (Wolfblood)
  • Rhydian Morris (Wolfblood)
  • Jana Vilkas (Wolfblood)
  • Wolfbloods (Wolfblood)
  • Taeko Nomura (Coppelion)
  • Ling Yao (Fullmetal Alchemist)
  • Lan Fan (Fullmetal Alchemist)
  • Fu (Fullmetal Alchemist)
  • May Chang (Fullmetal Alchemist)
  • The Fanalis (Magi)
  • Mistborn (Mistborn Series)
  • Tineyes (Mistborn Series)
  • Saitama (OnePunch-Man)
  • Windwhisper (Mistborn Series)
  • Dovewing (Warriors)
  • Little Bunny (TF2 Freak)
  • Lory (Red Queen)
  • Jack (Samurai Jack)
  • Cosmo Users (Saint Seiya)
  • Dark Schneider (Bastard!!); via his Majin Form
  • Alonne (Dark Souls 2)
  • Dragons and Dragonslayers (Fairy Tail)
  • Raqib the Watcher (The 99)
  • Dirty Rat (Ace Lightning)

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