The power to scan brains. Sub-power of Brain Manipulation and Scanning.
Capabilities
The user can scan the brains and brainwaves of others, detecting such things as abnormalities, disease, or injury within others' brains.
Applications
- Disease Detection; detecting diseases in brains
- Individual Detection; detecting individual people by their brain patterns
- Thought Detection; detecting thoughts through one's brain patterns
Associations
Limitations
- Useless against brainless users.
Known Users
- Baymax (Big Hero 6)
- Kal-El/Clark Kent/Superman (DC Comics); via X-Ray Vision
- Bruce Wayne/Batman (Batman: Arkham)
- Guillotine (Goddess of Victory: Nikke)
- Gabriel Gray/Sylar (Heroes)
- Silas Burr/Cyber (Marvel Comics)
- Evil Morty (Rick and Morty)
- Supernaturals (Shadow Falls)
- The Shadow (Supernatural)
- Soundwave (Transformers One)
- Cheon Yeo Woon (Wolyaverse/Nano Machine)
Gallery
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Baymax (Big Hero 6) demonstrate Obake's temporoparietal junction.
Guillotine's (Goddess of Victory: Nikke) right eye, dubbed "Dragon of the Deep" has the power to scan for Nikkes' brainwave patterns that do not belong to registered citizens and shut them down, allowing her to subdue them without firing a single shot.
Gabriel Gray/Sylar (Heroes) using his aptitude to scan Claire's brain.
Silas Burr/Cyber (Marvel Comics) can scan and track specific brainwave patterns across great distances.
Like all Supernaturals, Kylie Galen (Shadow Falls) can scan and sense the brain patterns of others, allowing her to determine their exact species.
Using his x-ray vision, Kal-El/Clark Kent/Superman (Superman vs. The Elite) scans Manchester Black's brain, discovering the anomaly that grants him his powers and destroying it.
Superman (DC Comics) is able to perform such feats as lobotomizing others without leaving an external mark through careful focus of heat vision.
Soundwave's (Transformers One) unique abilities involve scanning a Cybertronian's electrical impulses to see if they are speaking a lie or the truth.
Videos
The Worst Napper on the Planet Just Woke Up - Supernatural