Death Sense

Death Sense
After becoming a Valkyrie, Danielle Moonstar (Marvel Comics) gained the ability to sense death.
Power/Ability to:	Sense death.

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force… as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."

― Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)

"Seriously, you're gonna die at a hotdog eating contest."

― Death to Muscle Man (Regular Show)

"Do you want to know...how you die...?"

― The Future Devil to Aki Hayakwa (Chainsaw Man)

"Haggard, I would not be you for all the world. You have let your doom in by the front door, but it will not depart that way."

― Mabruk to King Haggard (The Last Unicorn)

"Ogh! I guess they DIED!!..TRY AGAIN, TEAM!"

― Yellow Face (Battle For Dream Island)

"Canst thou hear this bell? It tolls for thy destiny's end. Accept it, and unbind thy soul, for this is thy last chance as a human to slumber in peace."

― First Hassan (Fate series)

The power to sense the coming of death and the actual act of dying. Technique of Death-Force Manipulation. Variation of Precognition. Opposite to Life Perception.

Also Called

• Death Prediction/Perception/Precognition/Vision
• Mortality Precognition

Fiction-Specific Terms

• Diabolical Prescience (Madame Webb; 2024)
• Shinigami Eyes (Death Note)

Capabilities

The user can sense the coming of death, determining when someone is dead or dying or if others have died in a specific location. This may extend to seeing the names and lifespans of those whose faces the user sees.

Applications

• Know, sense and predict deaths at a certain range:
  • Clairvoyance (death only)
  • Precognition (death only)
  • Retrocognition (death only)

Variations

• Precognitive Corpse Detection

Associations

• Aura Reading
• Banshee Physiology
• Chrono Vision
• Danger Detection
• Death-Force Manipulation
• Death Manipulation
• Destiny Chosen
• Hellhound Physiology
• Life and Death Manipulation
• Life-Force Manipulation
• Life Vision
• Mediumship
• Necromancy
• Necroscience
• Precognition
  • Precognitive Dreaming
• Shamanism
• Superior Human Physiology

Limitations

• Only works on beings capable of dying.
• May have limited range depending on the user's proficiency, innate talent or the nature of the power itself.
• May be always on.
• May not work on the user's own death.
• May only work on beings with a soul.
• May only be able to see either natural or unnatural death, not both.
• Deaths may always happen despite the user's actions, likely causing immense distress to the user.
• They may come out as signs or clues.

Known Users

Cartoons/Comics

• Yellow Face (Battle For Dream Island)
• Black Hand (DC Comics)
• Bloodwynd (DC Comics)
• Jeannette (DC Comics)
• Lisa Drake (DC Comics)
• Hellboy (Hellboy/BPRD)
• Spawn (Image Comics)
• Scolippi (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part V: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo); via Rolling Stones
• Danielle Moonstar (Marvel Comics)
• Rachel Summers (Marvel Comics)
• Victor Creed/Sabretooth (Marvel Comics)
• Selene (Marvel Comics)
• Ghost Rider (Marvel Comics)
• Prince Wayfinder (Marvel Comics)
• Eric Brooks/Blade (Marvel Comics)
• Ezekiel Sims (Marvel Comics/Madame Webb)
• Melody Jacobs/Threnody (Marvel Comics)
• Charles Hinton (Marvel Comics/Marvel Cinematic Universe)
• Lady Micte (Maya and the Three)
• Grim (The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy)
• Ned Flanders (The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror)

Live Television/Movies

• Rack (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Angels of Death (Charmed)
• Phoebe Halliwell (Charmed); via Precognition
• Characters who cheat death (Final Destination)
• River Tam (Firefly)
• Shinichiro Kiyama (Fortuna's Eye)
• Aoi Kiryu (Fortuna's Eye)
• Takeo Kurokawa (Fortuna's Eye)
• Emily Mallum (Fringe); via Precognitive Artistry
• Vanessa Stanley (Haven)
• Cyclops Race (Krull)
• Billy Blake (Luke French: Alien Hunter)
• Jordan Cross (Smallville); via physical contact with anyone
• Kelpiens (Star Trek Discovery)
  • Saru
• Force Sensitives (Star Wars)
• Death (Supernatural)
• Sam Winchester (Supernatural); via Precognition but lost it after his first death.
• Lydia Martin (Teen Wolf)
• Meredith Walker (Teen Wolf)
• Lorraine Martin (Teen Wolf)
• Jordan Parrish (Teen Wolf)
• Ana Cristina Martínez (The Eye)
• Sydney Wells (The Eye)
• Yukio (The Wolverine)
• Eric Northman (True Blood)
• Bill Compton (True Blood)
• Clyde Bruckman (X-Files)
• Charles Hinton (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)

Literature

• Children of Hades/Pluto (Percy Jackson and the Olympians/The Heroes of Olympus)
  • Nico di Angelo
  • Bianca di Angelo
  • Hazel Levesque
• Holiday Brandon (Shadow Falls)
• Kylie Galen (Shadow Falls)
• Della Tsang (Shadow Falls)
• Burnett James (Shadow Falls)

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Mei Misaki (Another)
• Rukia Kuchiki (Bleach)
• Kururugi Suzaku (Code Geass)
• Future Devil (Chainsaw Man)
• Shinigami (Death Note)
• Users of the Shinigami Eyes (Death Note)
• Alucard (Hellsing)
• Yogiri Takatou ("Instant Death")
• InuYasha (InuYasha)
• Haruhiro (Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash)
• Souta Hatate (If Her Flag Breaks); via Death Flags
• Souta Hatate (Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara)
• Fujiura Isshin (Momento Memori)
• Amane (Mushi-shi); via the Ganpuku Mushi
• Users of Kenbunshoku/Observation Haki (One Piece)
  • Aisa
  • Koby
• Gravekeepers (Sunday without God)
• Vandalieu (The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time); via Danger Sense: Death
• Mikoto Aiura (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K)
• The Darkness (Top Cow)
• Mahitotsuhime/Levi Kazama (Trinity Seven)
• Ryuki Kashin (Trinity Seven); after taking Levi's left eye
• Michiru Kita (Zombie-Loan)

Video Game

• Mundus (Devil May Cry)
• Raziel (Legacy of Kain)
• Absol (Pokémon)
• Gardevoir (Pokémon)
• Nightmare (Soul Calibur)
• Shiki Ryougi (TYPE-MOON)
• Shiki Tohno (TYPE-MOON)
• D (Vampire Hunter D)

Other

• Dominic Deegan (Dominic Deegan: Oracle For Hire)
• The Oracle (The Order of the Stick)
• Hringham, King of the Non-Life (Anima: Beyond Fantasy)
• SCP-4999/The Small Death (SCP Foundation)
• Laura Sanz (The Subject No. 1)
• Thanatos (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Several people (Nickleback - Savin' Me)

Known Objects

• Death Crystal (Rick & Morty: Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat)

Gallery

The Future Devil (Chainsaw Man)

A Shinigami (Death Note) can simply look at the face of a target and see the name and remaining lifespan of the said human.

By trading half of one's lifespan, humans who own the Death Note (Death Note) can also possess the Shinigami Eyes.

Bloodwynd (DC Comics)

The Mystical Spawn (Image Comics)

Michiru Kita (Zombie Loan) possesses this power via her "Shinigami Eyes".

The Angel of Death (Charmed)

Alex Browning (Final Destination)

Kimberly Corman (Final Destination 2)

Wendy Christensen (Final Destination 3)

Nick O'Bannon (The Final Destination)

Sam Lawton (Final Destination 5)

Yukio (The Wolverine) has a limited precognitive ability to discern the nature of a person's death.

Sam Winchester (Supernatural) had the ability to see the deaths of others in his psychic visions

As a Banshee, Lydia Martin (Teen Wolf), is a harbinger of death and has auditory and visual premonitions of deaths involving supernatural creatures.

Jordan Parrish (Teen Wolf) as a hellhound, is able to sense and locate dead supernatural beings.

Befitting its name as the "Disaster Pokémon", Absol (Pokémon) is able to sense when a tragedy such as death is about to occur.

Gardevoir (Pokémon) are especially skilled at sensing any future threats to their trainers; and should they sense that their trainer's life is in danger, their psychic powers will peak.

Darth Vader (Star Wars)

D (Vampire Hunter D)

Rachel Summers (Marvel Comics)

Death (Supernatural)

Scolippi's Stand, Rolling Stones (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V Golden Wind/Vento Aureo) shapes into someone who is destined to die soon and begins tracking them down.

Shiki Tohno (TYPE-MOON) perceives Roa's death lines.

Shiki Ryougi (TYPE-MOON) can perceive the "lines and points of death" around all things.

Aisa's (One Piece) Mantra or Kenbunshoku/Observation Haki unwillingly gives her the ability to sense whenever a person would die.

Mahitotsuhime/Levi Kazama (Trinity Seven) left eye known as "Eye of the God of Calamity" or "Divine Disaster Eye" allows her to sense the deaths of others...

...and see the upcoming death of everything including objects.

Ryuki Kashin (Trinity Seven) acquired the abilities of Mahitotsuhime's left eye, which she took along with her when she died, to "see" and sense the deaths of others.

Nico di Angelo (Percy Jackson and the Olympians/The Heroes of Olympus)

Videos

Supernatural - Sam, Dean and Bobby bind Death - S7E01 - Logoless-2

SCP-657 - Death-predicting Man (SCP Animation)-2