- "The Mind Gem: no thought shall remain a secret to me. Every mind is mine to open and examine. I can reach out and feel the dreams and aspirations of every living being in the entire universe. They touch me but do not affect me; for I am Thanos, far above such concerns. Billions of fertile minds waiting for me to sew the seeds of my own perceptions and goals. A universe of thralls..."
- ― Thanos (The Thanos Quest)
- "Do not be startled, child. My voice is in your mind, not in your ear. Verbal communication is so limited. You will find that telepathy is purity"
- ― Mage: The Ascension — Core Rulebook (1st edition)
The power to receive, transmit and interact with information with one’s mind. Sub-power of Psionics and Telepathy Manipulation. Technique of Higher Consciousness. Not to be confused with Telekinesis. The user is known as a Telepath.
Also Called
- Mental Contact/Surfing
- Mental Interaction/Interaction of Minds
Fiction-Specific Terms
- Brain Talk (Scarlet Nexus)
- Legilimency (Harry Potter franchise)
- Mental Response (Scarlet Nexus)
Capabilities
Users have telepathy, the psionic ability to perceive and interact with the minds and thoughts of humans, animals, and other sentient beings, and to transfer information from one mind to another without the aid of physical communication (noise or movement). A person with this ability is called a telepath. Users can receive and transmit information with their minds without physical interaction. However, many other mind-based abilities fall under telepathy due to those powers overlapping with the core concept of telepathy, allowing a telepath to interact with their own mind and the minds of others in a variety of ways. Some of the more common abilities also considered telepathy would be perceiving the thoughts of others and detecting the presences of other minds through extrasensory means. More advanced users can influence or completely control the minds of their targets and manipulate their thoughts, memories, and emotions at will. Potentially, they even control Psychic energy from their telepathic abilities, strengthening their previous powers and maybe even gaining new ones.
Applications
Similar to "Telekinesis", "Telepathy" is an umbrella term for any ability that involves projecting, reading and manipulating thoughts or affecting and interacting with other aspects of the mind.
- Various Psychic powers relating to mind reading, mind control, and mind-to-mind communication
Basic Skill Level
- Astral Projection: The ability to project the consciousness of oneself or others from the body.
- Empathy: The ability to interpret the emotions of others.
- Telempathy: The ability to communicate through emotions.
- Visual Empathy: The ability to see emotions of others.
- Telempathy: The ability to communicate through emotions.
- Mind Reading/Thought Detection: The ability to read and sense the thoughts of others.
- Imitative Mind Reading: The ability to verbally mimic the thoughts of others.
- Visual Mind Reading: The ability to see the thoughts of others.
- Memory Reading: The ability to read the target's memories.
- Visual Memory Reading: The ability to see memories of others.
- Telepathic Communication: The ability to open up secret conversations and relay covert information.
- Telepathic Broadcasting: The ability to simultaneously send one message to a group of people.
- Telepathic Speaking: The ability to speak aloud using only the mind.
Advanced Skill Level
- Astral Suggestion: Coax others through the immaterial world to do and act on your behalf.
- Control Negation: The ability to negate mind control on themselves or others.
- Dream Walking: The ability to enter the dreams of another.
- Dream Communication: The ability to converse and relay information through dreams.
- Dream Observation: The ability to perceive the dreams of others.
- Emotion Manipulation: The ability to make one feel pleased, happy, pained, or any other emotion.
- Information Detection: The ability to detect information/knowledge.
- Knowledge Manipulation: Telepathy can allow for the general manipulation of information
- Information Transferal: Transfer information.
- Download: The ability to quickly process, store, or download information through another's mind.
- Experience Sharing: Transfer experiences between minds.
- Information Trapping: The ability to trap any and/or all information into mind.
- Knowledge Absorption: The ability to steal knowledge.
- Knowledge Erasure: The ability to erase knowledge.
- Knowledge Projection: The ability to project knowledge into another mind.
- Calculation Transfer: Transfer calculations to someone else.
- Memory Transferal: Transfer memories to someone else.
- Telepathic Language Instruction: The ability to teach languages telepathically.
- Knowledge Recovery: The ability to recover knowledge.
- Knowledge Replication: The ability to replicate the learned knowledge and skills of others.
- Information Transferal: Transfer information.
- Hallucination Inducement: The ability to cause hallucinations, often ones based on the subject’s own psyche.
- Hypnagogia Inducement: The ability induces waking dreams into the target's subconscious.
- Mental Inducement: The ability to temporarily push the targets mind into the wanted state.
- Command Inducement: The ability to command a target using one's mind.
- Paralysis Inducement: The ability to restrict the movements of others via the mind.
- Mind Control: The ability to manipulate the minds of others via thought process.
- Hypnosis: The ability to induce haze like states in others that make them more suggestible to action.
- Mind Image: The ability to project one's image to the mind of another.
- Mind Link: The ability to develop a permanent mental bond with any person, also called imprinting.
- Action Link: The power to link with other beings, living or not subconsciously and with that, learn what they learn without having to learn or do the things themselves.
- Experience Sharing: The user can share their experiences with other beings or vice versa, this can cause them to share everything they are feeling, thinking, doing and wanting.
- Mind Melding: The ability to fuse one's consciousness with another.
- Mindshifting: User has direct and total control over their mental structure.
- Neuro-Psychic Manipulation: User possesses a very powerful psychic neurological system that intuitively alters the wiring and functions in their cerebellum.
- Mind Walking: The ability to enter the mind of another.
- Subconscious Walking: The ability to enter the subconscious of another.
- Omnilingualism: The ability to intuitively understand all languages.
- Sensory Inducement: The ability to cause the target to experience certain sensory effects.
- Telepathic Constructs: Create objects and other phenomena out of telepathic force.
- Empathic Constructs: Create objects and other phenomena out of empathic force.
- Psychological Constructs: Create objects and other phenomena out of psychological aspects.
- Telepathic Invisibility: The ability to become invisible via telepathy.
- Telepathic Translation: The ability to translate all languages.
Expert Skill Level
- Action Inducement: The ability to make others do whatever one wants.
- Speaking Inducement: The ability to make others say whatever one wants.
- Brain Manipulation: Stronger telepaths can reach into the cerebral matter of another being and play around with it at will.
- Brainwave Manipulation: Hotwire synaptic discharges for the sake of cleaner physiological control.
- Reanimation: Restart the neurological motor functions within cadavers to puppeteer lifeless husks of the deceased.
- Intelligence Manipulation: The ability to make smartest.
- Brainwave Manipulation: Hotwire synaptic discharges for the sake of cleaner physiological control.
- Psionic Inundation: The ability to launch psi-bolts to cause mental damage.
- Telepathic Static: The ability to project telepathic static.
- Unconsciousness Inducement: The ability to shut down an opponent's higher brain function.
- Psychic Falsification: The ability to create false psychic phenomena.
- Psychic Shadow: The ability to mask psychic presence, hiding from other psychics.
- Psychic Inhibitors: The ability to place inhibitors in the mind to limit the target's capabilities.
- Psychic Navigation: The ability to create a mental map of the area.
- Psychic Shield: The ability to erect a psychic shield to protect the minds of oneself and others.
- Psychic Torture: The ability to torture victims mentally and spiritually.
- Astral Constructs: Create objects and other phenomena using astral energy.
- Astral Solidification: Conjure and materialize astral energy in the waking world.
- Telepathic Implantation: The ability to implant memories, thoughts, and emotions into others.
- Sensory Scrying: The ability to perceive through the senses of other beings.
- Telepathic Aura: The ability to project telepathic field.
- Telepathic Hijacking: The ability to hijack telepathic communication.
- Telepathic Illusions: The ability to create and control illusions via telepathic manipulation.
- Empathic Illusions: The ability to create and control illusions via empathy.
- Telepathic Language Instruction: The ability to project language information to others to communicate.
- Telepathic Prediction: The ability to know an opponent's moves and attacks by reading their brain waves.
- Telepathic Relay: The ability to act as a mental relay station for a group of minds, allowing said minds to "speak" to one another through the user.
- Thought Projection: The ability to make the thoughts and ideas of oneself or others visible.
- Memory Projection: The ability to make the memories of oneself or others visible.
- Thought Manipulation: The ability to control the thoughts of others.
Master Skill Level
- Astral Trapping: The ability to tap into and harness the essence of the spectral realm in order to strengthen one's psychic power.
- Clairtelepathy: The ability to detect mental resonances from other locations and times.
- Clairempathy: The ability to detect emotional resonances from other locations and times.
- Consciousness Transferal: The ability to transfer the minds of oneself or others between bodies.
- Cyberpathy: Establish a neuro-psychic link up with digitized or electronic machinery.
- Darkside View: The ability to communicate with and bring out the dark side of a person's personality.
- Dream Manipulation: The ability to manipulate dreams.
- Dream Constructs: The ability to create objects and other phenomena out of dreams.
- Dream Inducement: The ability to cause dreams.
- Extrasensory Perception: The ability acquire information by means other than the ordinary senses.
- Lightside View: The ability to communicate with and bring out the good side of a person's personality.
- Memory Manipulation: The ability to erase, restore and alter the target's memories.
- Memory Communication: The ability to converse and relay information through memories.
- Memory Walking: The ability to enter the memories of others.
- Mental Manipulation: The ability to manipulate functions of the mind.
- Hypnosis Manipulation: The ability controls the spread and effect of any suggestible psychosis.
- Qualia Manipulation: he user can create, shape and manipulate any/all qualia, or information as perceived by life's senses, allowing one to alter what a living being perceives, as well as alter the actual properties and information of what they perceive.
- Mental Shield Creation: The ability to create mental shields in themselves or others to protect them of psychic attacks.
- Mental Shield Penetration: The ability to bypass or penetrate a mental shield.
- Mind Exchange: The ability to transfer one's mind into another's body, taking control of that body.
- Possession: The ability to project one's mind into the body of a living being to inhabit and control them.
- Multi Possession: The ability to possess multiple targets at once.
- Partial Possession: The ability to possess others without leaving one’s own body.
- Remote Possession: The ability to possess others from a distance.
- Power Manipulation: More powerful users are able to psychically control the superpowers of others.
- Power Augmentation: The ability to adjust the powers of others either to make them more powerful or allow that power to function differently than before.
- Power Negation: The ability to temporarily “turn off” the powers of others.
- Power Replication: The ability to channel and reproduce the powers of others within themselves.
- Projective Omnilingualism: The ability to emit a field that translates every spoken language.
- Psychic Wave Manipulation: The ability to generate and manipulate thought waves.
- Psychic Element Manipulation: The ability to generate and manipulate psychic elements.
- Psychic Energy Manipulation: The ability to produce and manipulate pure psychic energy.
- Psychic Constructs: The ability to create objects and other phenomena out of pure psychic energy.
- Psychic Energy Manipulation: The ability to produce and manipulate pure psychic energy.
- Psychic Element Manipulation: The ability to generate and manipulate psychic elements.
- Psychic Perception: The ability to perceive various forms of psychic phenomena.
- Psychosomatic Illusion: The ability to create powerful illusions that may cause severe physical damage.
- Remote Telepathy: The ability to use telepathy from a long range.
- Signal Creation: The ability to manifest one’s telepathy in the form of a signal.
- Psionic Signal Placement: The ability to cause objects or individuals to emit telepathic signals that repel or attract.
- Subconscious Manipulation: The ability to manipulate the subconscious.
- Subliminal Messaging: The ability to implant thoughts and ideas into the subconscious.
- Telepathic Dilation: The power to water down the abilities of others by blocking neurological signals.
- Telepathic Surgery: The ability to perform neuropsychic surgery, healing and damaging the mind.
Ultimate Skill Level
- Astral Plane Connection: Establish a link with the astral plane itself using telepathy.
- Automatic Function Manipulation: Stronger psychics can hotwire the bodily functions of another person by splicing into their nerves telepathically.
- Cosmic Empathy: The ability to interpret the emotions of billions or more subjects at once.
- Cosmic Telepathy: The ability to read the thoughts of billions or more subjects at once.
- Cosmic Projection: The ability to project one's image across space and time.
- Deprivation: The ability to telepathically interact/transmit with abstracts concepts/manifestations, transcendent beings, non-entities, spirits, and the psychic residue of the dead.
- Mental Projection: The ability to project thoughts into reality.
- Mindscape Transportation: The ability to transport physical matter into one's conscious or subconscious thoughts.
- Neural Jumpstart: The power to augment another's abilities by accelerating neuronal activity.
- Psychic Force Manipulation: The ability to manipulate psychic forces for various purposes.
- Psionic Explosion: The ability to create/release explosions of pure psychic energy for destructive purposes.
Absolute Skill Level
- Immaterial Manipulation: The user can create, shape and manipulate the immaterial. i.e., anything in the universe that has no physical form and cannot be perceived by the senses/is not tangible, such as souls, divine beings, concepts, ideas, the mind, and so on.
- Astral Manipulation: The ability to manipulate astral energy.
- Astral Bridging: The ability to blend the astral realm with the material one. Overlaying illusion with the surreal.
- Material Astral Projection: Give solid form to your astral
- Astral Bridging: The ability to blend the astral realm with the material one. Overlaying illusion with the surreal.
- Astral Manipulation: The ability to manipulate astral energy.
- Mindscape Materialization: The ability to will one's thoughts and their inner world into reality.
- Omni-Empathy: The ability to sense and feel an infinite number of emotions across all universes, planes and dimensions.
- Omni-Telepathy: The ability to read, sense, communicate with, and control an infinite number of minds across all universes, planes and dimensions.
- Organopathy: User has dominion over all Organic, Biological and Living forms of matter via power of the mind.
- Sleep Manipulation: The ability to control and manipulate all aspects of sleep.
- Sleep Inducement: The ability to cause or induce sleep to others.
- Technopathy: Hold total dominion over all mechanized, computerized or most base forms of engineering via power of the mind.
- Unimind: The ability to be connected with all things and their essences.
Techniques
Variations
- Animal Telepathy
- Ballistic Telepathy
- Chi Telepathy
- Dragon Telepathy
- Electrical Telepathy
- Empathy
- Energy Telepathy
- Esoteric Telepathy
- Genetic Telepathy
- Magical Telepathy
- Musical Telepathy
- Oneiropathy
- Organopathy
- Spiritual Telepathy
- Tactile Telepathy
- Technological Telepathy
- Technopathy
- Telempathy
- Telepathic Force Manipulation
- Telepathy Manipulation
- Telepathic Intelligence
- Telepathic Illusions
- Telepathic Power Replication
- Temporal Telepathy
Universe Variations
Some universes include Telekinesis as a form of telepathy.
Associations
Associated Users
Limitations
- Does not work on mindless beings such as corpses, animated objects, robots, etc.
- Cannot work on users of Psychic Shield, Psychic Immunity or Indomitable Will.
- May be ineffective to users of Alien Mind.
- Users of Fathomless Mind are immune and can overpower user.
- May be limited to a certain range to work, including touch only.
- May be limited to a certain number of targets at a time.
- May be overwhelmed by certain unique people, especially the ones which are too complicated (e.g. a genius' mind which is doing calculus and scientific formulas), detailed (e.g. an artist or photographer's mind which have all kind of photographic memories), insane/morally corrupted (e.g. "death is salvation" , "burning folks to death is helpful" , "I just liked to kill, I wanted to kill", "I will create my idea of the perfect world by genocide", "everybody must perished for god's sake" ), and/or ones which don't make any sense (e.g. "2+2=5", "a one-ended line grand plan", "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" , "two or three circle equal four different squares combined" ). Persons possessing Alien Mind might be too dangerous to telepathy with.
- May be constantly active and have to constantly hear thoughts.
- Since the user constantly hears thoughts, this power becomes ineffective in large crowds.
- May get overwhelmed by too many thoughts.
- May be limited to the thoughts which the target is currently thinking.
- May be limited to reading either thoughts or memories.
- May not be able to read impulsive actions.
- Users of Divided Mind may be hard to process due to multiple patterns of mind.
- Some minds may be overwhelming to the user.
- May not understand information's perceived.
- May be hijacked and overpowered by higher users.
- May require concentration.
Known Users
See Also: Telepathy and Real Telepathy.
Cartoons/Comics
- Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant (Adventure Time)
- Goliad (Adventure Time)
- Vampire King (Adventure Time)
- Tamara Caulder (Batman Beyond)
- Amperi (Ben 10 series)
- Ampfibian
- Ra'ad
- Anodites (Ben 10 series)
- Gwen Tennyson (Ben 10 series)
- Ventrilosquid (Ben 10: Omniverse)
- Sir George (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien)
- Kongu (BIONICLE); via Kanohi Suletu; as a Toa Inika
- Telepathy Users (Danny Phantom)
- Desiree
- Ma-Ti (Captain Planet)
- Theresa (Class of the Titans)
- Fantomah (Comic House)
- Elsa (Creepschool)
- Ace (DCAU)
- Ray Thompson (Justice League)
- Agent Honeydew (Dexter's Laboratory)
- Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)
- Everseer (The Incredibles)
- Psychwave (The Incredibles)
- Mohajah (Jackie Chan Adventures)
- Amazo (Justice League Unlimited)
- Water Civilization (Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters)
- Brainy Barker (Krypto the Superdog)
- Neuro (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
- Fracine Nebulon (LIoyd in Space)
- Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth/Shadow Moth/Monarch (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir); Advanced Level
- Nathalie Sancoeur/Mayura (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir); Advanced Level
- Elton (Monster Buster Club)
- Scarah Screams (Monster High)
- Discord (My Little Pony series)
- Sunset Shimmer (My Little Pony Equestria Girls)
- Oracle Coven (The Owl House)
- Kira (Phantom Investigators)
- Control Freak (Phineas and Ferb)
- Pops (Regular Show)
- Telepathic Spiders (Rick and Morty)
- Fart (Rick and Morty)
- Fox Alistair (RWBY)
- Madelyn Spaulding (Static Shock)
- Horde Prime (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power); limited to those connected to his Hive Mind
- Fairy Godmother (Shrek)
- Steven Universe (Steven Universe)
- Tyler (Supernoobs)
- Blorgon (Supernoobs)
- April O'Neil (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series)
- Dr. Tyler Rockwell (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series)
- Soundwave (G1 Transformers)
- Unicron (Transformers Prime)
- Taranee Cook (W.I.T.C.H.)
- Halinor (W.I.T.C.H.)
- Will Vandom (W.I.T.C.H.)
- Mind Reader Conch users (Xiaolin Showdown)
- Betta George (Angel: After the Fall)
- Sadecki Demons (Angel: After the Fall)
- Various characters (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Evil Ernie (Chaos!/Dynamite Comics)
- Montgomery Knox (Charmed comic)
- Arthur Curry/Aquaman (DC Comics); Master Level
- Captain Comet (DC Comics)
- Dubbilex (DC Comics)
- Manchester Black (DC Comics); Expert Level
- Maxwell Lord IV (DC Comics); Master Level
- Esper Lass (DC Comics)
- Gorilla Grodd (DC Comics)
- Hector Hammond (DC Comics)
- Hitman (DC Comics)
- Icon (Milestone Comics/DC Comics)
- Klaramarans (DC Comics)
- Chun Yull
- Klee Pan
- Yun Xee
- Kryptonians (DC Comics)
- Jonathan Lane Kent/Superboy (DC Comics)
- Maxima (DC Comics)
- Martians (DC Comics); Master Level
- Mento (DC Comics)
- Psimon (DC Comics)
- Raven (DC Comics)
- Saturn Girl (DC Comics)
- Tempest (DC Comics)
- Lilith Clay/Omen (DC Comics)
- Various Metahumans (DC Comics)
- Tomorrow Woman (DC Comics)
- Joseph Meach/Composite Superman (DC Comics)
- Ya'Wara (DC Comics)
- Matthew Callahan/Threshhold (Image/Wildstorm Comics)
- Nicole Callahan/Bliss (Image/Wildstorm Comics)
- Team 7 (Image/Wildstorm Comics)
- Mind-Swipe (Extinctioners)
- Eve Mahn (Extinctioners)
- Adolpho (Loonatics Unleashed)
- Various Mutants (Marvel Comics)
- Apocalypse (Marvel Comics); Expert Level
- Blackagar Boltagon/Black Bolt (Marvel Comics)
- Blindfold (Marvel Comics)
- Ahura Boltagon (Marvel Comics)
- Astrid Bloom (Marvel Comics)
- Lizard (Marvel Comics)
- Nathan Summers/Cable (Marvel Comics); Master Level
- Chamber (Marvel Comics)
- Thanos (Marvel Comics)
- Cosmo (Marvel Comics); Expert Level
- Stepford Cuckoos (Marvel Comics); Master Level
- Emma Frost/White Queen (Marvel Comics); Master Level
- Galactus (Marvel Comics)
- Madelyne Pryor/The Goblin Queen (Marvel Comics); Master Level
- Jean Grey/Phoenix (Marvel Comics); Master Level
- Karma (Marvel Comics); limited
- Little Mary (Marvel Comics)
- David Haller/Legion (Marvel Comics)
- Doctor Strange (Marvel Comics)
- Franklin Richards (Marvel Comics); Master Level
- M.O.D.O.K. (Marvel Comics)
- Mantis (Marvel Comics)
- Meggan (Marvel Comics)
- James-Michael Starling/Omega the Unknown (Marvel Comics)
- Monet St. Croix (Marvel Comics)
- Professor Charles Xavier (Marvel Comics); Master Level
- Elizabeth Braddock/Psylocke (Marvel Comics)
- Quentin Quire (Marvel Comics)
- Rebecca Essex/Mother Righteous (Marvel Comics)
- Sage (Marvel Comics)
- Silver Surfer (Marvel Comics)
- Amahl Farouk/The Shadow King (Marvel Comics)
- Rachel Summers/Marvel Girl/Phoenix (Marvel Comics); Master Level
- Nate Gray/X-Man (Marvel Comics); Master Level
- Bennet du Paris/Exodus (Marvel Comics)
- Loki Laufeyson (Marvel Comics)
- Xraven (Marvel Comics)
- Tarn the Uncaring (Marvel Comics)
- Xi'an Coy Manh/Karma (Marvel Comics); Basic Level
- Todd Ingram (Scott Pilgrim)
- Sasuke the Demon Queller (Usagi Yojimbo)
- Bleeding Monk (Valiant Entertainment)
- Peter Stancheck (Valiant Entertainment)
- Toyo Harada (Valiant Entertainment)
- Vampirella (Vampirella)
- Cybernary (Wildstorm Comics)
Live Television/Movies
- Gary Navarro (The 4400)
- Fiona Goode (American Horror Story: Coven)
- Nan (American Horror Story: Coven)
- Mary Hamilton (Arrowverse/Batwoman); Formerly
- Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy (Arrowverse/Batwoman)
- Telepaths (Babylon 5)
- Bo Adams (Believe)
- Joshua Carpenter (Believe)
- Danni (Believe)
- Jacob Eckstein (Believe)
- Shawn (Believe)
- Mesmer/Mesmerizer (The Boys)
- The Master (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel); temporarily
- Telepath Demons (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- William Scully III/Jackson Van De Kamp (The X-Files)
- Some Demons (Charmed)
- Elders (Charmed)
- Enola (Charmed)
- Christy Jenkins (Charmed)
- Whitelighters (Charmed); limited to charges
- Zachary (Charmed)
- Margarita "Maggie" Vera (Charmed 2018)
- Catalina Bladimof (Chica Vampiro)
- Kolob (Children of the Dog Star)
- Gretchen Kierney (Children of the Dog Star); via contact with the Siriusians
- Matt Garetty (The Chronicle)
- Ruby Daly (The Darkest Minds)
- Clancy Gray (The Darkest Minds)
- Abra Stone (Doctor Sleep)
- The Eight Legs (Doctor Who)
- Gas Mask Zombies (Doctor Who)
- Jamie/The Empty Child
- The Host (Doctor Who)
- Krynoids (Doctor Who)
- The Ood (Doctor Who)
- Raxacoricofallapatorians (Doctor Who)
- Slitheen
- Sensorites (Doctor Who)
- Silurians/Homo Reptilia (Doctor Who); via third eye
- Susasn Foreman (Doctor Who)
- Time Lords (Doctor Who)
- Sachiko/The Quiz (Doom Patrol)
- Roxie Torcoletti (Eastwick)
- Bun Waverly (Eastwick)
- Rosalind (Fate: The Winx Saga)
- Cayce Briges (Fear 1990)
- Lazoons (Fireball Xl5)
- Zoonie
- River Tam (Firefly)
- Dominic Lance/Brainstorm (The Flash)
- Clifford DeVoe/The Thinker (The Flash)
- Sky (Gabby Duran & the Unsittables); via touch
- Frost Sisters (The Gifted)
- Houtua (Godzilla Anime Trilogy)
- Maina
- Miana
- Ezra Colbert (Haven)
- Charles Deveaux (Heroes)
- Matt Parkman (Heroes)
- Maury Parkman (Heroes)
- Arthur Petrelli (Heroes)
- Dracas Clan (Heirs of the Night)
- Walter Sampson/Brainwave (Jupiter's Legacy)
- Raikou (Jupiter's Legacy)
- Tezuka Miyuki (Kamen Rider Ryuki)
- Andreij (The Invisible Boy)
- Natasha (The Invisible Boy: Second Generation)
- Zoe McConnell (The Lazarus Effect)
- Listeners (Legend of the Seeker)
- David Haller/Legion (Legion)
- Amahl Farouk/Shadow King (Legion)
- Charles Xavier (Legion)
- Oliver Bird (Legion)
- Toby Logan (The Listener)
- Nicky (Little Nicky)
- Adrian (Little Nicky)
- Cassius (Little Nicky)
- Lucia (Los Protegidos)
- Keira Beltrán (Los Unicos)
- NeoCortex (Mighty Med)
- Kelly Bailey (MisFits)
- Lourenço Braga (Morangos Com Açúcar 4); temporarily
- Emma DeLauro (Mutant X)
- Telepaths (Mutant X)
- George Sunday/Thermoman (My Hero); temporarily, via the power of Mascara
- Daphne Powell (No Ordinary Family)
- Xybrians (Power Rangers Time Force)
- Trip
- Rafkonians (Power Rangers Dino Fury)
- Aiyon
- Zayto
- Orria
- Amelia Jones
- Brayden Mills (Raising Dion)
- Jeggorabax Energy Entity (The Sarah Jane Adventures)
- Max del Valle (The Secret Score) via texts on other people's phones
- Sensates (Sense8)
- Pancha McCaskill (Silversun); via her brain implant
- Kromags (Sliders)
- Ryan James (Smallville)
- Clark Kent (Smallville); temporarily
- The Ancients (Stargate franchise)
- Henry King Sr. (Stargirl)
- Henry King Jr (Stargirl)
- Species 8472 (Star Trek)
- Vulcans (Star Trek)
- Gary Mitchell (Star Trek: The Original Series)
- Teyla Emmagan (Stargate Atlantis); through her Wraith DNA
- The Wraith (Stargate Atlantis)
- Warthin (Stargate Atlantis)
- Adria (Stargate SG1)
- Eggar (Stargate SG1)
- Khalek (Stargate SG1)
- Queen Arra (Space: 1999)
- Angels (Supernatural)
- Oliver Price (Supernatural)
- Missouri Moseley (Supernatural)
- Magda Peterson (Supernatural)
- Poli Truper (Supertorpe)
- The Monstrosity (SMILE Franchise/Laura Hasn’t Slept)
- Guy Anatole (Talamasca: The Secret Order)
- Banshees (Teen Wolf)
- Lydia Martin
- Meredith Walker
- Danny Torrance (The Shining & Doctor Sleep)
- Homo Superiors (The Tomorrow People)
- CJ Ward (Tower Prep)
- Anthony Fremont (The Twilight Zone)
- Grandma (The Twilight Zone)
- Various Ultramen and aliens (Ultramen)
- Merrill Young and Patsy LaRue (Vampire High)
- Various Supernatural Beings (The Vampire Diaries/The Originals/Legacies)
- Psychics
- Sirens
- Space Jockeys (Aliens franchise)
- Belial (Basket Case)
- Duane Bradley (Basket Case)
- The Bye Bye Man (The Bye Bye Man)
- John Murdoch (Dark City)
- The Strangers (Dark City)
- Oranges (The Darkest Minds)
- Rage (Dream Warrior)
- Uncle Bene (Escape to Witch Mountain/Return from Witch Mountain); Humans, animals, other aliens
- Tia and Tony Malone (Escape to Witch Mountain/Return from Witch Mountain); Humans, animals, other aliens
- Sheng Yayu/Emotionless (The Four)
- Chloe Lewis (Freaks)
- Guiron (Gamera vs Guiron)
- Virasians (Gamera vs Viras)
- Jobe Smith (The Lawnmower Man)
- Maika (Maika: The Girl From Another Galaxy)
- Druig (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
- Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
- William "Billy" Maximoff/William Kaplan/Wiccan (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
- Cassandra Nova (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
- Siu May (Mermaid Got Married)
- Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
- The Tall Man (Phantasm)
- Jeremy Reed (Powder)
- Sara (Race to Witch Mountain)
- Tyler Burns (Skyrunners)
- Brain Bugs (Starship Troopers)
- Freya McAllister (Thoughtcrimes)
- Tamara Riley (Tamara)
- The Children's (Village of the Damned)
- Ali Davis (What Men Want); men only via hitting her head on the bar counter
- Nick Marshall (What Women Want); women only via electrocution
- Charles Xavier/Professor X (X-Men Movies)
- Emma Frost (X-Men: First Class)
- Jean Grey/Phoenix (X-Men Movies)
- Jason Stryker (X2: X-Men United)
- Cate Dunlop (The Boys: Gen V )
- Angels ("Lucifer")
- Archangels ("Lucifer")
- God ("Lucifer")
Literature
- Rhysand (A Court of Thorns and Roses)
- Feyre Archeron (A Court of Thorns and Roses)
- Andalites (Animorphs)
- Anyone in morph (Animorphs)
- Crayak (Animorphs)
- Ellimist (Animorphs)
- Howlers (Animorphs)
- Iskoort (Animorphs)
- Carrie White (Carrie)
- Phoners (Cell)
- Eustacia Yewbeam (Children of the Red King)
- Serena Killingsworth (Daughters of the Moon series)
- Torans (Deltora Quest)
- Nika (Demon Accords)
- Abra Stone (Doctor Sleep)
- Alec Warrdon (The Eidolon Saga)
- Linnea Wallin (Engelsfors)
- Aldwyn (The Familiars)
- Dragon Riders and their dragons (Inheritance Cycle)
- Magicians (Inheritance Cycle)
- Legilimens (Harry Potter)
- Aria Seshenes (Karsearin: Adventures of a Red Dragon); via Keliminate
- Users of Magic Message (Karsearin: Adventures of a Red Dragon)
- Telepaths (Keepers of the Lost Cities)
- Laura Leander (Laura and the Secret of Aventerra)
- Mary Morgain (Laura and the Secret of Aventerra)
- Edythe Cullen (Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined)
- Ella/Number Ten (Lorien Legacies)
- Isarians (Los Hechiceros del Dragon)
- Angel (Maximum Ride)
- Bradley (The Medusa Project)
- Ed (The Medusa Project)
- Dashiell Gibson (Moon Base Alpha series)
- Violet Gibson (Moon Base Alpha series)
- People of Bosco (Moon Base Alpha series)
- Zan Perfonic
- Greys (Ology Series)
- Aden Kai ("Psy/Changeling Series")
- Whispers (Red Queen)
- Elara Merandus
- Samson Merandus
- Faes, chameleons, elves, ghost-whispering supernaturals & spirits (Shadow Falls)
- No. 2 (Record the Quanx - Denma S.E. - The Love Sick); via Telepathy Quanx ability
- Telepaths (The Sookie Stackhouse Novels)
- Barry The Bellboy
- Hunter Savoy
- Sookie Stackhouse
- Wil McBride (Sparkstone)
- Sage (Star Darlings)
- Pennywise the Dancing Clown/It (Stephen King's It)
- Edward Cullen (Twilight series)
- Danny Torrance (The Shining & Doctor Sleep)
- Jayfeather (Warriors series)
- Dr. Tachyon (Wild Cards series)
- Fortunato (Wild Cards series)
- Lawrence Hague (Wild Cards series)
- Sacha Starfin (Wild Cards series)
- Coleman Hubbard (Wild Cards series)
- Baby (Wild Cards series)
- Hellcat (Wild Cards series)
- Magnus Chase (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard)
- NightWings (Wings of Fire)
- Gregory Kennedy (The Young Guardians)
- Emmaline Sommers ("Shatter Me")
Anime/Manga/Manhwa/Manhua
- Akira (Akira)
- The Espers (Akira)
- Lady Miyako (Akira)
- Tetsuo Shima (Akira)
- Seiya Kanie (Amagi Brilliant Park)
- Fleet of Fog (Arpeggio of Blue Steel)
- Devils (Bastard!!)
- Dark Schneider (Bastard!!)
- Archanfel (Bio Booster Armor Guyver)
- Hamilcar Barcas (Bio Booster Armor Guyver)
- Waferdanos (Bio Booster Armor Guyver)
- Shin Rubeo Amniculus (Bio Booster Armor Guyver)
- Friedrich von Purgstall (Bio Booster Armor Guyver)
- Li Yentsui (Bio Booster Armor Guyver)
- Masaki Murakami (Bio Booster Armor Guyver)
- Schierke (Berserk)
- Joshua Christopher (Chrono Crusade)
- Mary Magdalene (Chrono Crusade)
- Aion (Chrono Crusade)
- Ivan Whisky/Cyborg 001 (Cyborg 009)
- Users of Telepathy Quanx ability (Denma)
- Internal Affairs agent
- Road Kamelot (D.Gray-man)
- Wisely Kamelot (D.Gray-man)
- Ryo Asuka/Satan (Devilman)
- Babidi (Dragon Ball Z)
- Son Goku (Dragon Ball Z)
- Kanassans (Dragon Ball Z)
- King Kai (Dragon Ball Z)
- Namekians (Dragon Ball Z)
- Hell Fighter 17 (Dragon Ball GT)
- Brain (Fairy Tail)
- Simon (Fairy Tail)
- Warren (Fairy Tail)
- Unita (Flint the Time Detective)
- Vampires (Hellsing)
- Various characters (Heroic Age)
- Goshinki (InuYasha)
- Terence T Darby; via Atum
- Kokosaki (Koe ga Dasenai Shoujo wa "Kanojo ga Yasashisugiru" to Omotteiru)
- Dufaux (Konjiki no Gash Bell!); anime only
- Haruka Koutora (Kotoura-san)
- Users of Telepathy (Magical Girl Lynical Nanoha)
- Takeshi Nanase (Mahou Sensou)
- Kiyoharu Suirenji (Mahou Shoujo Site)
- Mizou Yukuhashi (Medaka Box)
- Kousuke Seto (Mekakucity Actors)
- Accords (Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom)
- Migard Tribe (Mushoku Tensei)
- Kaito and Daichi Shiratori (Mob Psycho 100)
- Momozo Takenaka (Mob Psycho 100)
- Shino Sosaki (My Hero Academia)
- Various Characters (Murim Login)
- Ino Yamanaka (Naruto)
- Inoichi Yamanaka (Naruto)
- Those with the Voice of All Things (One Piece)
- Various Characters (One-Punch Man)
- Mewtwo (Pokémon)
- Sabrina (Pokémon)
- Yellow (Pokémon Adventures)
- Yugo Gilbert (Project ARMS)
- Kyuubey (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
- Liliana Masquerade (Re:Zero)
- Reinhard van Astrea (Re:Zero)
- Demons (Sand Lands)
- Various Characters (Saint Seiya)
- Shin Asakura (Sakamoto Days)
- Saiki Kusuo (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.)
- Belial (Seven Mortal Sins)
- Anya Forger (SPY×FAMILY)
- Jake Martinez (Tiger & Bunny)
- Shokuhou Misaki (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
- Meiko Ōtsuka (Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches); via kiss
- Ao (Yozakura Quartet)
- Hiei (Yu Yu Hakusho)
- Kazuma Kuwabara (Yu Yu Hakusho)
- Murota (Yu Yu Hakusho)
- Maximillion Pegasus (Yu-Gi-Oh!); via Millennium Eye
- Nowaki Hotaru (Zettai Karen Children)
- Various Characters (Wolyaverse)
- Naoya Kirihara (Night Head Genesis)
Video Games
- Jodie Holmes/Aiden (Beyond: Two Souls)
- Pomegranate Cookie (Cookie Run series)
- Shadow Milk Cookie (Cookie Run: Kingdom)
- Anita (Darkstalkers)
- Hivemind (Dead Space)
- Markers (Dead Space)
- The Brethren Moons (Dead Space)
- Furons (Destroy All Humans)
- Cryptosporidium 137-139
- Androids (Detroit: Become Human)
- Pact Partners (Drakengard)
- The Watchers (Drakengard)
- Disciples (Drakengard 3)
- Ninten/Ken (Earthbound Beginnings/Mother)
- Paula (Earthbound/Mother 2)
- Alma Wade (F.E.A.R. series)
- Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII franchise)
- Jenova (Final Fantasy VII franchise)
- Mint Blancmanche (Galaxy Angel)
- Vortigaunts (Half-Life)
- Combine Advisors (Half-Life)
- Herrscher of the Void (Honkai Impact 3rd)
- Dracula (Honkai Impact 3rd)
- Kessler (inFAMOUS)
- Sasha (inFAMOUS)
- John White (inFAMOUS)
- Bloody Mary (inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood)
- Hades (Kid Icarus)
- Palutena (Kid Icarus)
- Viridi (Kid Icarus)
- Lingering Sentiment (Kingdom Hearts)
- Mind Guardian (Legacy of Kain)
- Nupraptor (Legacy of Kain)
- Kain (Legacy of Kain)
- Vampires (Legacy of Kain)
- Mortanius (Legacy of Kain)
- Sona (League of Legends)
- Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda)
- Princess Zelda (The Legend of Zelda)
- Fi (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)
- Alex Chen (Life is Strange: True Colors); via Aura Reading
- Akira Tadokoro (Live-A-Live)
- Lucius (Lucius)
- Asari (Mass Effect)
- Leviathan (Mass Effect)
- Chakron (Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story)
- Dr. Toadley (Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story)
- Psycho Mantis (Metal Gear Solid)
- Elisa and Ursula (Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops)
- Mother Brain (Metroid)
- Ermac (Mortal Kombat)
- Kenshi (Mortal Kombat)
- Takeda Takahashi (Mortal Kombat)
- Ghosts (Murdered: Soul Suspect)
- Ronan O'Connor (Murdered: Soul Suspect)
- Psychic-Type Pokémon {i.e. Exeggcute} (Pokémon)
- N (Pokémon)
- Mewtwo (Pokémon)
- The Keepers (Prey)
- Sarah and Tanya Blake (Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy)
- Razputin (Psychonauts)
- Haruka Frazer (Scarlet Nexus)
- Wataru Frazer (Scarlet Nexus)
- Various characters (Scarlet Nexus) via Brain Talk
- John Vattic (Second Sight)
- Jayne Wilde (Second Sight)
- Zenner Children (Second Sight)
- Blastermind (Skylanders); uses a variation of this power while driving a vehicle
- Master Eon (Skylanders)
- Hex (Skylanders)
- Black Doom (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Chip/Light Gaia (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- The End (Sonic Frontiers); Basic Level
- Doctor Timothy (South Park: The Fractured But Whole)
- Krystal (Star Fox)
- Ghosts (StarCraft)
- Rosalina (Super Mario)
- Mallow (Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars); via Psychopath
- Satori Komeiji (Touhou)
- The Guardian (Ultima)
- Kamal Re'x (Universe at War)
- Esper (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Minister Sucia (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Saga (Valkyrie Crusade)
Web Comics/Original
- Rolando (Helluva Boss)
- Tavros Nitram (Homestuck)
- Aranea Serket (Homestuck)
- Vriska Serket (Homestuck)
- Lori (Outsider)
- Vedika Dhawan/Mindful Eye (Sleepless Domain)
- SCP-001 - The Gate Guardian (Dr Clef's Proposal) (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-343 - God (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-239 - The Witch Child (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-523 - The Most Unhelpful Object On Earth (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-689 - Haunter in the Dark (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-795 - Reality-Bending Cat (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-1470 - Telepathic Spider (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-1564 - Post-Nibbanic (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-1849 - Telepathic Parrot (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-1867 - A Gentleman (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-1956 - The Gnomes (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-2543 - Our Harriet (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-2634 - A Higher Power (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-2664 - Redline (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-2682 - The Blind Idiot (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-2764 - The Eldritch Antarctic (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-2845 - THE DEER (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-2870-A - General Malaise (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-3004 - Imago (SCP Foundation)
- Sam Howell/SCP-3812 - A Voice Behind Me (SCP Foundation)
- Alena/SCP-6113-1 - Temporary Reflections (SCP Foundation)
- Sophia/Olympia/Subject/Zero/Olympia Zero/The Original/Europa (SCP Foundation)
Other
- Toa Kongu (BIONICLE); via Kanohi Suletu; formerly
- Female Skrall (BIONICLE)
- Cartoon Cat (Trevor Henderson Mythos)
- The Man with the Upside-Down Face (Trevor Henderson Mythos)
- The Moon (LOCAL58)
- Smile Dog (Creepypasta)
- Astropaths (Warhammer 40,000)
- Telepath discipline Psykers (Warhammer 40,000)
Known Objects
- Kanohi Suletu (BIONICLE)
- Cortex Baker (Cookie Clicker)
- Mother Box (DC Comics)
- Metebelis crystal (Doctor Who)
- Goruda Brain Tonic (Doctor Who)
- Cerebral Inhibitor (The Flash)
- Dracas Ruby (Heirs of the NIght)
- Cerebro (Marvel Comics)
- Mind Gem (Marvel Comics)
- Blight Necklace (The Owl House)
- PsyNet (Scarlet Nexus)
- SCP-035 - The Possessive Mask (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-294 - The Coffee Machine (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-484 - Memory Stealing Drug (SCP Foundation)
- Mind Reader Conch (Xiaolin Showdown)
- Millennium Eyes (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Gallery
Cartoons/Comics
Betta George (Angel: After the Fall) possesses such psionic power that his mental abilities can even affect vampires.
Amperi (Ben 10) can sense the electrical pulses in the minds of other life forms, allowing them to read their thoughts.
Gwen Tennyson (Ben 10) inherited her grandmother's ability to use mana, including using for telepathy.
Verdona (Ben 10) can user her mastery over mana to telepathically communicate.
From Martian Manhunter, Amazo (DC Animated Universe) can read the minds of others.
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Composite Superman (DC Comics) possesses Saturn Girl's telepathy.
Manchester Black (DC Comics) is a powerful telepath.
Martian Manhunter (DC Comics) has the telepathic abilities common to Martians.
Maxima (DC Comics) telepathically communicates with Superman underwater.
Maxwell Lord (DC Comics) became an incredibly dangerous telepath due to the effects of the Gene Bomb implemented by the Dominators during Invasion! Now he has the qualities of a mentalist on par with, potentially surpassing, the likes of the Martian Manhunter.
Saturn Girl (DC Comics) is a powerful telepath.
White Martians (DC Comics) have the telepathic abilities common to Martians.
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Miss Martian's (DC Comics/Young Justice) telepathic abilities surpass that of Martian Manhunter.
Mind-Swipe (Extinctioners) is one of the most powerful telepaths in her setting, capable of a vast array of psychic abilities such as mind-control, telepathic communication, illusion-casting and more.
Eve Mahn (Extinctioners) is the chosen bodyguard of Noah Adam Mahn, she is an expert swordswoman as well as a low-level telepath.
Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls) can read people's thoughts as he is the master of the mind.
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Charles Xaiver/Professor X (Marvel Comics)
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Cosmo (Marvel Comics) is a telpathic dog.
Emma Frost (Marvel Comics) is a world-class telepath.
Jean Grey (Marvel Comics) is a world-class telepath.
Initially limited to reptiles, the Lizard's (Marvel Comics) telepathic abilities later evolved to enable him to commune with and control humans through their "lizard brain", inducing fear in Spider-Man...
...forcing humans to act out their primal urges...
...and inducing them to brutalize Spider-Man.
Madelyne Pryor/The Goblin Queen (Marvel Comics) is a clone of Jean grey and thus shares her telepathic abilities.
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Mantis (Marvel Comics) is a powerful telepath.
Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (Marvel Comics) can use telepathy though magic.
Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir) is able to telepathically communicate with those he akumatizes.
Nathalie Sancoeur/Mayura (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir) is able to telepathically communicate with those she amokizes.
Odalia Blight (The Owl House) using her and Amity’s necklace to telepathically communicate with each other.
Steven Universe (Steven Universe) can telepathically communicate with other when he sleeps.
Due to her family being experimented on by the Kraang for generations, April O'Neil (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series) possesses numerous telepathic and telekinetic abilities.
Mind Reader Conch (Xiaolin Showdown) allow the user to hear the thoughts of others.
Jackson King/Battalion (Wildstorm Comics)
Katrina Cupertino/Cybernary (Wildstorm Comics) possessed some low-key telepathic ability that enabled her smuggling career to run as seamlessly as it did before her unwitting modification
Gold the Tenrec (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
Unicron (Transformers Prime)
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MictēcacihuātI (Onyx Equinox) uses telepathy in the form of fire to commune with Mequë/Xolotl
Live Television/Movies
Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Christy Jenkins (Charmed) is a powerful telepath.
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Maggie Vera (Charmed 2018)
The Eight Legs (Doctor Who)
The Ood (Doctor Who) are a highly telepathic species.
Time Lords (Doctor Who)
River Tam (Firefly)
Lazoons (Fireball XL5) like Zoonie are Semi-Telepathic.
Matt Parkman (Heroes)
Kelly (Misfits) has this ability until she sold it.
Daphne Powell (No Ordinary Family)
Trip (Power Rangers Time Force)
The Wraith (Stargate) normally uses this ability to communicate with each other.
Cara Coburn (The Tomorrow People) is a homo superior specialized in Telepathy.
CJ Ward's (Tower Prep) Perception ability extends into reading others' thoughts and feelings.
Anthony Fremont (Twilight Zone) is capable of hearing the thoughts of an entire town.
Grandma (Twilight Zone) mind reading.
Cisco Ramon/Vibe (Arrowverse) can communicate with the people he is vibing with.
From Dominic Lanse, DeVoe (Arrowverse) gained telepathic powers to detect the presence of all, as he immediately became aware of Cisco "vibing" him and place a "blockage" in Caitlin Snow's mind, making it more difficult for her to reach her Killer Frost side.
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NeoCortex (Mighty Med) telepathic abilities allow him to mentally communicate with people and read a person's mind. As well as manipulate them, turning Oliver personality into Kaz and even putting them to sleep on a Lunar Eclipse.
Henry Creel/One/Vecna (Stranger Things)
Jane Ives-Hopper/Eleven (Stranger Things)
Guiron (Gamera vs Guiron) uses telepathic waves to control his shuriken.
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Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street) can read the minds of his victims in order to use their fears and personalities against them.
Sara (Race to Witch Mountain)
The Strangers (Dark City)
Perenna (Arrowverse)
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Dominic Lanse/Brainstorm (Arrowverse/The Flash)
Literature
After being exposed to the Genesis Spell, Gregory Kennedy (Young Guardians) can hear another person's thoughts.
Edward Cullen (Twilight) is a telepath and can read people's thoughts from several miles away.
Torans (Deltora Quest) have natural telepathy among their tribe.
Severus Snape (Harry Potter) is a master Legilimens being able to detect non-verbal spells by thought.
Tom Riddle/Voldermot (Harry Potter) is an exceptionally powerful Legilimens being able to read countess minds and implant false images to lure and trap foes.
Gandalf (The Lord of the Rings) being a Maia was able to telepathic read Frodo's mind while he was sleeping.
Galadriel (The Lord of the Rings) being a high elf of the Valinor is telepathic having read the Fellowship's minds upon meeting them.
Sauron (The Lord of the Rings) can communicate with his forces like the Nazgûl just through sheer thought.
Dinah (The Langoliers) due to her blindness developed telepathy.
The Losers Club (IT) have a powerful sixth sense which they carried with them into adulthood being able to detect Mike's cry for help miles underneath the sewers.
Daniel Torrance (The Shining) has an incredible sixth sense telepathy known as "Shining" which lets him read the minds of other and have precognition...
...as does Dick Hallorann who mentored Danny in using it, though his shine was not as powerful.
Anime/Manga/Manhwa/Manhua
Tetsuo Shima (AKIRA)
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Aion (Chrono Crusade)
Road Kamelot's (D.Gray-man) ability of Dream grants her powerful telepathic capabilities, such as mind reading, and projecting her thoughts into her opponent either for communication or to break down their minds completely.
Wisely Kamelot (D.Gray Man) uses his Demon eye to contact other Noah members and Road, even to other dimensions.
Babidi (Dragon Ball Z)
Namekians (Dragon Ball Z)
Son Goku (Dragon Ball Z)
With her mysterious eye, Zorin (Hellsing) can read minds and souls and use them to determine what illusions work best on her victims.
Ino Yamanaka (Naruto) is able to probe into people's mind for memory analysis and mind reading for interrogation, just like her father. She is able to visualize memories and extract information from it.
The Uchiha (Naruto) thanks to the Sharingan have telepathic abilities
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Viola (One Piece)
Like his late father, Kozuki Momonosuke (One Piece) has the telepathic ability to hear the Voice of All Things.
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Monkey D. Garp & Gol D. "Gold" Roger's (One Piece) have abilities to hear the Voice of All Things.
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Sabrina & Kadabra (Pokemon anime) are joined telepathically.
Yellow (Pokémon Adventures)
After drinking a superhuman serum as a child, Shin Asakura (Sakamoto Days) gained telepathic abilities.
Mu Aries (Saint Seiya) has telepathic abilities.
Anya Forger (Spy X Family)
Thanks to the Jagan, Hiei (Yu Yu Hakusho) possesses telepathic abilities.
Murota's "Wire Tape" (Yu Yu Hakusho) allowed him to hear what his opponent's thoughts and predict their attacks within 30 meters.
Wataru Frazer... (Scarlet Nexus)
...And his younger twin sister, Haruka Frazer (Scarlet Nexus)
Video Games
Vortigaunts (Half-Life) can often be seen in pairs or groups, and information is spread among them through low-grade telepathy.
Combine Advisors (Half-Life) can use telepathy in and out of combat, communicating with their subordinates and using telepathic attacks to cause mental pain.
Kessler (inFAMOUS) communicating to Cole Macgrath.
Neku Sakuraba (The World Ends With You)
Princess Zelda (The Legend of Zelda)
Fi (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)
Dr. Toadley (Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story)
Psycho Mantis (Metal Gear Solid)
Chip/Light Gaia (Sonic the Hedgehog)
Elisa and Ursula (Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops)
Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII franchise) has shown vast telepathic power, from manipulating minds, manipulating the will of others, affecting memories, and manipulating various forces. His powers have transcended cosmic level, becoming the Nexus of the Whispers (Causality), altering timelines, and taking full control of "The Singularity".
Aerith Gainsborough (Final Fantasy VII) has displayed incredible telepathic powers thanks to her Cetra heritage on her mother's side, in the original game she is able to communicate with Cloud despite miles away from him while Cloud was dreaming.
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Jenova (Final Fantasy VII franchise) can telepathically possess and manipulate any carrier of Jenova cells. Sephiroth having been genetically engineered with "her" is able to control anyone that carries her DNA inside them.
Mother Brain (Metroid)
The Mold (Resident Evil) can grant telepathic/fungokinesis power over those infected through its powerful hosts...
...such as Eveline...
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...and Mother Miranda.
Mitochondria Eve (Parasite Eve)
The Guru (Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves) possesses a certain degree of telepathy, as seen when he bridges both Sly's and Panda King's minds and when he read Panda King's mind in order to discover why he was in a complete state of peace.
Black Doom (Sonic the Hedgehog)
Satori Komeiji (Touhou) Sickness in Everyone's Heart.
Minister Sucia (Valkyrie Crusade)
Saga (Valkyrie Crusade) has s voice so bewitching that she communicates through telepathy.
Kain (Legacy of Kain), has the powers of the Mind Cuardian, can commune with his mind and read the minds of others, he also has Empathy, being "Hypersensitive to people's emotions" and he can control minds.
Alex Chen (Life is Strange: True Colors)
Videos
Examples/Users
The Doctor and Reinette Mind Link - The Girl in the Fireplace - Doctor Who - BBC-2
The Shining scene - Hallorann explains what the Shine is-2
Stranger Things Season 3 - Eleven gets inside Billy's mind HD-2
Mantis all powers from the MCU films and TV-2
Professor X - Doctor Strange- Multiverse of Madness - Powers and Fight Scenes-2
Legion- All Powers from the show-2
Jean grey-Phoenix marvel rivals scenepack all skins (no creds needed)
Jean Grey - Powers Scenes (X-Men- 97)-2
X-Men vs. Jean Grey - Dark Phoenix - X-Men Anime-2
Miss Martian - All Powers & Fight Scenes (Young Justice S01)-2
Goku's power of telepathy-2
DRAGON BALL FIGHTERZ Piccolo Reads Bulma's Mind Bulma (Thinks He's Being Pervy)-2
Guyver Rebirth Scene-2
Anya is Invincible! - SPY x FAMILY-2
Le Telepathé - Cyanide & Happiness Shorts
Phoenix VS Raven (Marvel VS DC) - DEATH BATTLE!-2
Sasuke VS Hiei (Naruto VS Yu Yu Hakusho) - DEATH BATTLE!
Martian Manhunter VS Silver Surfer (DC VS Marvel) - DEATH BATTLE!-2
Scarlet Witch VS Zatanna (Marvel VS DC) - DEATH BATTLE!
Obi-Wan Kenobi VS Kakashi (Star Wars VS Naruto) - DEATH BATTLE!
Madara VS Aizen (Naruto VS Bleach) - DEATH BATTLE!
Black Adam VS Apocalypse (DC VS Marvel) - DEATH BATTLE!-2
Cable VS Booster Gold (Marvel VS DC Comics) - DEATH BATTLE!-2
Magneto VS Tetsuo (Marvel VS Akira) - DEATH BATTLE!
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (4-10) Movie CLIP - Todd the Vegan (2010) HD-2
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (5-10) Movie CLIP - The Vegan Police (2010) HD-2
Analyzes/Explanations/Discussions
X-Men Origins- JEAN GREY - The Early Years-2
Superpowers Explained- Telepathy-2
This 1960's Spy Hero Is Amazing. Let's Bring Him Back.-2
Final Fantasy 7 Lore ► JENOVA's Origins Explained-2
Parasite Eve Series Retrospective - An Exhaustive History and Review-2
The History of Mewtwo