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** [[Shock and Awe|Fulgurkinesis]]/Astrakinesis - the ability to create electrical discharges and lightning bolts, and/or to control the flow of electrons inside machines. Sometimes encompasses the control of magnetic fields, too, if the author had a passing grade in high school science. (Note that the word "[[wikipedia:Electrohydrodynamics#Electrokinesis|electrokinesis]]" actually has a real-world scientific meaning that has nothing to do with '''Psychic Powers''', but most writers/fanboys who use the term [[Did Not Do the Research|don't seem to know that]].)

*** A variant of this is [[Technopath|Machine Empathy or Technopathy]]—the ability to mentally link to and control computer systems.

** Biopsychokinesis, or Bio-PK—the ability to influence living tissue on the cellular or molecular level. Used for [[Healing Hands|psychic healing]], [[Healing Factor|regeneration]], [[Psychic Surgery]] or as a darker power the ability to [[Touch of Death|kill people with]] [[Firefly|your brain]], traditionally by stopping their heart, but can also cause a massive stroke, simply shut the brain down, prevent the lungs from working...

** Biopsychokinesis, or Bio-PK—the ability to influence living tissue on the cellular or molecular level. Used for [[Healing Hands|psychic healing]], [[Healing Factor|regeneration]], [[Psychic Surgery]] or as a darker power the ability to [[Touch of Death|kill people with]] [[Firefly (TV series)|your brain]], traditionally by stopping their heart, but can also cause a massive stroke, simply shut the brain down, prevent the lungs from working...

** Basically, [[Fan Boy|Fanboys]] love to stick -kinesis as a suffix on anything and describe it as a psychic power. Thus you get bastardized terms like Chlorokinensis ([[Green Thumb|controlling plants]]), Chronokinesis ([[Time Stands Still|controlling time]]), Umbrakinesis ([[Casting a Shadow|controlling shadows]]), Hydrokinesis ([[Making a Splash|controlling water]]), [[Hurricane of Puns|Terrakinesis]] ([[Dishing Out Dirt|controlling stone and soil]]), [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|Curvacionubiliterriclothokinesis]] (The ability to [[Fan Service|whip the towel off a co-ed]] in a locker room without being physically present) etc., etc., Ad Infinitum.

*** Which is especially funny given that -kinesis is "movement" or "motion", and [[You Keep Using That Word|has nothing to do with psychic powers]]. The word pyrokinesis originated with Stephen King [[Did Not Do the Research|not knowing which of tele- and -kinesis meant "remote"]] in "telekinesis" (lit. "remote movement") and [[Blind Idiot Translation|picking the wrong one]]...

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* ''[[Babylon 5]]'': Telepathy, telekinesis, and in the case of the Centauri, a form of precognition.

** The Centauri took this [[Up to Eleven]]: Specially trained-from-birth teams of telepaths could communicate with each other across interstellar distances.

* ''[[Firefly]]'': River Tam demonstrates uncontrolled telepathy and empathy. It's [[Fanon|theorized by some]] that her combat prowess may be partly attributable to low-level precognition—seeing seconds into the future to determine an enemy's next move. She also has other abilities, such as an ability to discern health problems and locate dead bodies, find her way through strange environments with no guidance, and locate electronic devices or discern problems with machinery. Interestingly, the bonus feature on the ''Serenity'' DVD title "The R.Tam Sessions" implies that River already ''had'' some form of latent psychic ability before the Academy started working on her.

* ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'': River Tam demonstrates uncontrolled telepathy and empathy. It's [[Fanon|theorized by some]] that her combat prowess may be partly attributable to low-level precognition—seeing seconds into the future to determine an enemy's next move. She also has other abilities, such as an ability to discern health problems and locate dead bodies, find her way through strange environments with no guidance, and locate electronic devices or discern problems with machinery. Interestingly, the bonus feature on the ''Serenity'' DVD title "The R.Tam Sessions" implies that River already ''had'' some form of latent psychic ability before the Academy started working on her.

* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' has several characters with Psychic Powers, among them a mind-reader, a precognitive painter, and a man who can delete memories and "damper" other characters' powers by creating a psychic static. In fact, it's implied all the characters' powers are technically Psychic Powers, as the "seat of power" is universally in the brain.

* ''[[Medium]]'': precognition, postcognition, psychometry, communicating with ghosts, empathy/telepathy, and the ability to be possessed by ghosts. The show is inspired by the real-life Allison Dubois, who [[Phony Psychic|claims to be]] a medium.