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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Metanoia]]'' it was recently revealed that main character Star is an empath, which makes the fact that he worked as a (very efficient) assassin even worse, or as one character put it upon realizing this: "He dies with them. Every murder is a suicide."
* Faen from the Sullisin'rune clan in ''[[Drowtales]]'' are Empaths, and known for going mad as a result. Besides [[Empathic Healer|healing]] and sensing/projecting emotions Faen turned a teacher into a vegetable mentally and seriously wounded another student when she had a [https://web.archive.org/web/20190710233307/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?id=472 freakout] that lead to her running away to the surface. She also turned a an already dangerous, battle-trained direwolf into a [https://web.archive.org/web/20111121143721/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=268 berserker] thanks to an emotional feedback loop of fear (from her) and anger (from the wolf), apparently instinctively, in a fit of [[Power Incontinence]].
** Her mother Ash'waren is the same, only with control over her powers and about 1000 years of experience. Due to prejudices against dark elves, she does a [[The Masquerade|masquerade]] and use her Empathy to [https://web.archive.org/web/20111121143913/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=1253&overview=1&chibi=1&cover=1&extra=1&page=1&check=1 disguise herself] as a drowolath, an illusion she have no problem to uphold in front of a council of great and small clans of the city they live in, a crowded market and her own clan. Exactly how powerful she is is not known, and if Faen's freakout is any indication, nobody wants to find out. It was mentioned by the creators in a podcast that if she doesn't shield her emotions, her mood might affect everyone living inside the Sullissin'rune clan's [https://web.archive.org/web/20111121145834/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=148&overview=1&chibi=1&cover=1&extra=1&page=1&check=1 town sized dome]. Did we mention that she has the [[Drowtales]] version of Temujin/Ghenghis Khan more or less wrapped around her little finger?
* Parodied in ''[[Starslip]]''. Raquel turns out to have this ability due to being a telepathic [[Hive Mind|Quel]], but when she started doing Troi's "I'm sensing emotions" schtick, she had to clarify that it wasn't the emotions of the people they were talking to, and in fact she cannot sense emotions behind the room she's in.
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