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[[File:jean shows off her power.jpg|link=X-Men (Comic Book)|frame|Jean doesn't have to lift a finger to lift Hank.]]
{{quote|''"...Yeah, I can break necks with my mind."''|'''Tristan'''
▲{{quote|''"...Yeah, I can break necks with my mind."''|'''Tristan''', ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]''}}
Telekinesis: the ability to move stuff just by thinking at it really hard. Although [[Pstandard Psychic Pstance|hand gestures]] can also help.
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Note that the term "mind over matter" originally had ''nothing'' to do with telekinesis, it was coined in reference to what Tropers would call [[Heroic Willpower]] (or maybe [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]); the mind forcing the body beyond its normal limits.
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Subtrope of [[Psychic Powers]].
== Anime & Manga ==▼
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* In ''[[Madoka Magica]]'':
**Homura, from demonstrates the ability to use telekinesis in her fight against Walpurgisnacht. Whenever she used it, she was close to the objects in question. Plus considering she had obviously been preparing for a while, there might be other unseen limitations, like needing to touch the objects at some point before being able to use telekinesis on them. In the fight she also only used it on vehicles (a liquid fuel transport truck and some Type 88 Surface-to-Ship Missile). So it's possible that a lot of it is like driving. It never looks like she is straining herself when she used this ability. On a possibly related note, she was able to anchor herself to the fuel truck when she made it take a sharp turn.
**For her part, Walpurgisnacht lifts skyscrapers off their foundations and throws them.
* Kiiko Kawakami, [[Kuttsukiboshi]] is able to use telekinesis, which she gained as the result of an accident.
* For an extreme end of power, see Tetsuo Shima in the manga and anime ''[[Akira]]''.
* The vectors of Diclonii in ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' is effectively a very limited form of telekinesis. Ironically, despite LITERALLY being invisible arms, Diclonii never seem to suffer from increased stress when moving heavier objects.
* Asagami Fujino in the third ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:|Kara no Kyoukai]]'' book/movie can do a very specific form; she can bend things. It doesn't sound like much until you add in the fact that she can do this to anything she thinks is remotely bendable—in particular, ''human limbs''. At the end of her story as she is cornered by Shiki, {{spoiler|she gets a [[Desperation Attack]] upgrade in the form of boosted power and [[My Significance Sense Is Tingling|clairvoyance]], which removes her one weakness -- having to actually [[Evil Eye|see the thing in order to bend it]]. Asagami to suspension bridge: '''''[[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)/Anime and Manga|BEND!!!!!!]]'''''}}.
** According to the novel, and somewhat implied in the anime, she actually has two powers. She can rotate things clockwise... and can rotate them counterclockwise. The bending happens when she does both at once. Also, she completely averts the "harder to move heavier objects" aspect. If she can imagine a fulcrum, she can rotate it.
* It was revealed that Il Palazzo can do this at the end of the ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' anime, along with various other psychic powers.
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* One episode of [[Suzumiya Haruhi]] had this as one of Nagato's powers.
== Comic Books ==
* This power, while hardly a classic power of [[The Cape (trope)]], is nonetheless extremely common in comics.
* One [[Retcon]] of [[Superman]]'s abilities proclaimed that all his super-powers were telekinesis or another [[Psychic Powers|psychic power]]; this became explicit with Superboy, a [[Half-Human Hybrid|part-Kryptonian part-human]] clone with "[[The Same but More|tactile telekinesis]]", allowing him to telekinetically manipulate anything he could touch. Then it got [[Retcon|RetConned]] away again...
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* ''[[Elf Quest]]'' has Rayek, whose telekinesis was at his first appearance more of a party trick. Years of training and some other boosts let him push the limit, far enough to fly while carrying someone else, and/or repel arrows shot at him. There are only two others, Egg and Trof, making telekinesis one of the rarer powers.
* The run-of-the-mill foot soldier in ''[[The Red Star]]'' is trained in telekinesis; [[Spin to Deflect Stuff|spinning your standard-issue bayonet so fast it blocks bullets]] is a basic skill.
* In ''[[Irredeemable]]'', this is {{spoiler|Plutonian's real power; all applications of his powers are really him using his telekinesis unconsciously. Modeus remarked that he could alter probability, reverse entropy, and see through time, and that's just the ''tip of the iceberg'' of what he could do if he became aware of it.}}
== Fan Works ==
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== Films -- Animation ==
* In ''[[The Secret of NIMH]]'', Nicodemus' [[Amulet of Concentrated Awesome]] gives {{spoiler|Mrs. Brisby}} the power to levitate {{spoiler|the cinder block that serves as her house}}.
== Films -- Live-Action ==
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* In ''[[Dreamscape]]'', limited telekinetic abilities are displayed by the protagonist, Alex, though his primary abilities seem to be [[Telepathy|telepathic]] in nature.
* The three main characters in [[Chronicle]] gain telekinetic powers. Similar to Irredeemable, as they practice with their powers, they learn to [[Flight|fly]] by lifting themselves, and to pull of a decent simulation of [[Nigh Invulnerability]] by creating a "barrier" around themselves.
== Gamebooks ==▼
* This is a power in the ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' gamebooks. It gets more and more awesome as the books go on with Nexus, the upgrade of Mind Over Matter: by Book 9, you can move objects with your mind, wade through toxic fumes and intense heat with little difficulty, and ''put out fires with your mind''. It is never used offensively, however, Lone Wolf having plenty better options for that.▼
== Literature ==
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* One of the main powers of sufficiently strong telepaths in the [[Firebird Trilogy]]. The best of the best can even use telekinesis on themselves to control their own rate of fall.
* The [[Silicon-Based Life|Silicoids]] in [[Sergey Lukyanenko]]'s ''[[Line of Delirium]]'' emit and manipulate focused EM fields, which they use for locomotion (being columns of solid rock), intraspecies communication, and object manipulation. Their early spaceships were propelled by the combined efforts of the crew. They got the idea of adding external drives from other races.
== Live-Action TV ==
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** Possiblly this is 'just' their ability to feed of various forms of energy in the local environment.
* A natural ability of Vardians in ''[[Tracker]]''. Often accompanied by a flick of the head in the direction the item was being thrown.
== Music ==
* The music video for David Guetta's ''Titanium'' features a telekinetic teenage boy (the video starts with the aftermath of his powers wrecking a school corridor).
== Tabletop Games ==
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* ''[[Exalted]]'': She Who Lives In Her Name has an entire Charm tree branching off Mind-Hand Manipulation. It starts as the ability to hold people with your mind and eventually goes through the creation of whirling death zones of random debris around you to the power to ''crush souls''.
▲=== Gamebooks ===
▲* This is a power in the ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' gamebooks. It gets more and more awesome as the books go on with Nexus, the upgrade of Mind Over Matter: by Book 9, you can move objects with your mind, wade through toxic fumes and intense heat with little difficulty, and ''put out fires with your mind''. It is never used offensively, however, Lone Wolf having plenty better options for that.
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* In ''The Sparrow'', Emily Book uses her mind to fly, lift people, and bring inanimate objects to life. {{spoiler|At a young age she used her powers to kill her entire class by pushing the bus they were in onto railroad tracks. [[Disproportionate Retribution|They were teasing her and threw her lunchbox out the window.]]}}
== Toys ==
* Anyone using a [[Mask of Power|mask of telekinesis]] or those with the power of Psionics in ''[[Bionicle]]''.
== Video Games ==
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* In ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'', this is Ermac's signature power, and he's one of [[Big Bad|Shao Kahn's]] most powerful cronies. In ''[[Mortal Kombat 9]]'', it's revealed that he was the one who ripped off Jax's arms. He is one of the most blatant cases of [[Fridge Logic]], seeing as how he's evil and nothing is stopping him from simply decapitating enemies in seconds.
* Rose and Bison from [[Street Fighter]], as they're both powerful psychics {{spoiler|and share the same soul. Sort of.}}
== Web Comics ==
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* The aptly-named Dr. Kinesis in ''[[Evil Plan the Webcomic]]''.
* One of Nanashi's pool of powers in ''[[Earthsong]]''.
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* Quite a few of the Trolls in ''[[Homestuck]]'' have some form of [[Psychic Powers]], but Sollux and Aradia, {{spoiler|after [[Dead All Along|she became a ghost]]}}, are the only ones with telekinesis. Both of them prefer to use their abilities to fight rather than allocating a specific weapon to their [[Weapon of Choice|Strife Specibus.]]
* In ''[[The Specialists]]'', [http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-70/ Lady Liberty].
== Web Original ==
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* The Omega Universe has several telekinetics (Tempest, for example). Magic users can use telekinetic "rotes" i.e. spells that briefly emulate telekinesis.
* The [[Academy of Superheroes]] has several. Breaker is notable in that she was a very weak teke who used her powers to emulate wuxia-style martial arts i.e. high leaps, slow falls etc.
== Western Animation ==
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