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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Issac Mendez, the psychic painter from ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' originally needed to get high on heroin in order to use his precognitive abilities. Even after he learned to do without, it was still easier for him to see the future while high.
** His paintings do become more focused while sober though. When he's sober he can actually focus on a certain person's future, such as Claire or Hiro. On heroin though, he has a tendency to paint the future totally at random.
== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
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* In the [[X-COM]] series, the Psi-Amps work this way: the abilities of the human psychics are their inner abilities, but they need these devices (and in the second game, an implant) to manifest them, unlike psychic aliens, who can mind-blast you without gadgetry.
* ''[[System Shock]] 2'' has Psi Amps used the same way, although they have many more applications than just telepathy.
* Protoss Psi blades from ''[[
* The dragon amulet of ''[[Jade Empire]]'' allow the Spirit Monk to tap into his or her in-born powers and easier usage of ability-augmenting beads. Like most examples of this trope, the SM eventually learns how to function without the amulet. ''Un''like most examples of this trope the where the crutch is quietly discarded as useless by the hero, the amulet's focusing ability becomes ''very'' important to the [[Big Bad]] after he steals it.
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