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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 Smither, 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 touch better than an average member of their species.

Applications

  • Accelerated Perception: Slow down the user's perception of time.
  • 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.

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, ground, and water.
  • 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:

Variations

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 either negate or remove these senses unless they are reversible.

Known Users

See Also Super Senses.

Literature

  • Mistborn (Mistborn Series)
  • Tineyes (Mistborn Series)
  • Windwhisper (Mistborn Series)
  • Lory (Red Queen)
  • The Amys (Replica)
  • Josh and Sophie Newman (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel)
  • Vampires and werewolves (Shadow Falls)
  • Melina Gold (Silver Moon Chronicles)
  • Vampires (Twilight Series)
  • Tinisha Dolaira (The Young Guardians)
  • Titan/Arion McGrath (The Guardians Saga)
  • Dovepaw (Warriors)
  • Dovewing (Warriors)
  • Angelface (Wild Cards series)
  • Akasha (The Vampire Chronicles)

Manga/Anime

  • Toby aka Astro (Astro Boy)
  • Dark Schneider (Bastard!!); via his Majin Form
  • Sajin Komamura (Bleach)
  • Tenpouin Yuuki (Code: Breaker); sound
  • Taeko Nomura (Coppelion)
  • Goku (Dragon Ball Series)
  • Saiyans (Dragon Ball Series)
  • Vegeta (Dragon Ball Series)
  • Piccolo (Dragon Ball Series)
  • Cobra (Fairy Tail)
  • Dragons and Dragon Slayers (Fairy Tail)
  • Ling Yao (Fullmetal Alchemist)
  • Lan Fan (Fullmetal Alchemist)
  • Fu (Fullmetal Alchemist)
  • May Chang (Fullmetal Alchemist)
  • Alucard (Hellsing)
  • Gon (Hunter x Hunter)
  • InuYasha (InuYasha)
  • Tsunayoshi Sawada (Katekyo Hitman Reborn); via Vongola Super Intuition
  • The Fanalis (Magi)
  • Itachi Uchiha (Naruto)
  • Dracule Mihawk (One Piece)
  • Saitama (OnePunch-Man)
  • Cosmo users (Saint Seiya)
  • Black☆Star (Soul Eater)
  • Free (Soul Eater)
  • D (Vampire Hunter D)

Comics

  • Raqib the Watcher (The 99)
  • Durham Red (2000 AD)
  • Dark Claw (Amalgam Comics)
  • Icon (DC Comics)
  • Bizarro (DC Comics)
  • Hawkman (DC Comics)
  • Animal Man (DC Comics)
  • Killer Croc (DC Comics)
  • Wonder Woman (DC Comics)
  • Green Martians (DC Comics)
  • White Martians (DC Comics)
  • Krytonians (DC Comics); via yellow sun radiation
  • Daxamites (DC Comics); via yellow sun radiation
  • 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)
  • Spawn (Image Comics)
  • Superman X (Legion of Super-Heroes)
  • Daredevil (Marvel Comics)
  • Stick (Marvel Comics)
  • Thornn (Marvel Comics)
  • Wolfsbane (Marvel Comics)
  • Wolverine (Marvel Comics)
  • X-23 (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)
  • Silver Surfer (Marvel Comics)
  • Thor (Marvel Comics)
  • Nightcrawler (Marvel Comics)
  • Namor (Marvel Comics)
  • Tony Stark (Marvel Comics); via Iron Man Armor
  • Catseye (Marvel Comics)
  • Rocket Raccoon (Marvel Comics)
  • Tigra (Marvel Comics)
  • Sunspot (Marvel Comics)
  • Dormammu (Marvel Comics)
  • Vampirella (Vampirella)
  • Sara Pezzini (Witchblade)
  • Mister Majestic (DC Comics)

Cartoons

  • Muhktar (Aladdin: the Animated Series)
  • Toph Beifong (Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra); not counting eyesight
  • Wildmutt (Ben 10)
  • Spidermonkey (Ben 10: Alien Force/Ultimate Alien)
  • Ben Tennyson (Ben 10)
  • Ultimate Spidermonkey (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien)
  • Rolf (Ed, Edd, n' Eddy)
  • Inspector Gadget (Inspector Gadget)
  • Experiment 626 "Stitch" (Lilo & Stitch)
  • Lexi Bunny (Loonatics Unleashed)
  • Jack (Samurai Jack)
  • Scooby-Doo (Scooby-Doo)

Television

  • Illyria (Angel)
  • Rachel Pirzad (Alphas)
  • Vanessa Brewer (Angel)
  • Vampires (Being Human)
  • Werewolves (Being Human); briefly, before and after transformation
  • 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)
  • Raxacoricofallapatorians (Doctor Who)
    • Slitheen
  • Time Lords (Doctor Who)
  • Sylar (Heroes)
  • Donna Dunlap (Heroes)
  • Saranelle "Sarah" Magalang (Kung Fu Kids)
  • Chase Davenport (Lab Rats)
  • Calvin Porter (Mutant X); hearing
  • Shalimar Fox (Mutant X)
  • Doggie Cruger (Power Rangers SPD)
  • Many villains (Power Rangers series)
  • Will (Power Rangers Operation Overdrive)
  • Jim Ellison (The Sentinel)
  • Spock (Star Trek)
  • Clement MacDonald (Torchwood Children of Earth)
  • Maddy Smith (Wolfblood)
  • Rhydian Morris (Wolfblood)
  • Jana Vilkas (Wolfblood)
  • Wolfbloods (Wolfblood)

Films

  • Xenomorphs (Alien series)
  • Godzilla (Godzilla)
  • Elves (Lord of the Ring Series)
  • Daredevil (Marvel Cinematics Universe)
  • Stick (Marvel Cinematics Universe)
  • G-Girl (My Super Ex-Girlfriend)
  • Predators (Predator/Alien vs. Predator)
  • RoboCop (RoboCop)
  • Boba Fett (Star Wars)
  • Terminators (The Terminator)

Video Games

  • Demons/Fiends (Quake Series)
  • Dirty Rat (Ace Lightning)
  • 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)
  • Rayne (BloodRayne)
  • Alonne (Dark Souls 2)
  • Protagonist Characters (Fallout series); via Perception Skill & various perks
  • Jack Carver (Far Cry Instincts)
  • Viera (Final Fantasy)
  • Link (The Legend of Zelda)
  • Kain (Legacy of Kain)
  • Raziel (Legacy of Kain)
  • Solid Snake (Metal Gear)
  • Samus Aran (Metroid)
  • Baraka (Mortal Kombat)
  • Alex Mercer (Prototype)
  • Lickers (Resident Evil)
  • Rottweilers (Quake Series)
  • Blind Dogs (S.T.A.L.K.E.R Series)
  • Pseudodogs (S.T.A.L.K.E.R Series)
  • Psy Dogs (S.T.A.L.K.E.R Series)
  • Rodents (S.T.A.L.K.E.R Series)
  • Swatbots (Sonic the Hedgehog)
  • Tasmanian Devils (Sonic the Hedgehog)
  • Wombat Stu (Sonic the Hedgehog)
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)
  • Clawgrip (Super Mario Bros. Series)
  • Tryclyde (Super Mario Bros. Series)
  • Yoshis (Super Mario Bros. Series)
  • Turbo Mecha Sonic (Super Mario Bros. Z)

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