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* The Orphan, a Marvel superhero who was also called Mr. Sensitive, had all his senses enhanced. He had to wear a special suit to prevent all the information coming in through his skin from driving him insane.
** Possibly a deconstruction of the idea of super-senses. As mentioned, he had to wear a special suit constantly, but he even had to use a special salve to dull his senses if he wanted to...eh...get ''physical'' with anyone. And at one point, a villain who has knowledge of the Orphan's power uses it against him: he has a henchman hold the Orphan tight, then tears open the suit and tortures him...by lightly scratching him with a ''penknife''. To the Orphan's enhanced senses, it was unimaginably painful.
*** The Orphan, as a member of X-Statix, was a parody of all sorts of things. As well as deconstructing
** Callisto of the Morlocks suffered a similar fate when she lost her powers due to M-day and got a flawed version of them thanks to Terrigen Mist exposure. The Mist enhanced her sense of touch to such an insane degree that ''raindrops'' caused her tremendous pain. Fortunately for Callisto, the Mist powers wore off over time.
* Diviner from ''[[Justice Machine]]''.
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* In the Uglies trilogy, Specials can apparently smell a burnt out campfire from ten kilometers away, see in the dark and hear better than bats. Shay in particular can always smell what someone is feeling. Specials got super senses as a result of the operation that gave them super strength and super speed (and scary faces).
* In PN Elrod's ''[[The Vampire Files|Vampire Files]]'' series, the vampire Jack Fleming has unusually acute senses. This is one of the few stories I've seen that mentions the disadvantages of this, because Jack finds violin music painful even if it's well-played.
* In Brandon Sanderson's [[Mistborn]], Allomancers can achieve this through burning tin. {{spoiler|Spook ends up burning so much tin for so long that his senses become stretched to ridiculous levels, allowing him to do such things as avoid swords because he can "feel the vibrations in the air".}} Sanderson also does a good job of portraying the drawbacks of having
** Feruchemy can "store" a power and bring it out later, and using tin can suffer from debilitated senses for a time in order to be able to boost them later. Unlike with Allomancy, this only works with one sense per storage object.
* The title protagonist of Isobelle Carmody's ''Alyzon Whitestarr'' experiences a head injury and gains mystical-seeming heightened senses combined with [[Hyper Awareness]] and photographic memory, to the point where she can sense personalities and emotions through smell. She has to learn to screen out the excess stimuli and interpret the new information she is receiving.
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* Two members of the GUYS Crew in ''[[Ultraman Mebius]]'' had heightened senses - George with his sight, and Marina with her hearing.
* Hyde in ''[[Jekyll]]''. "Oooh, nice...but it's not your usual perfume, there's another one underneath." He later senses what gender a pregnant woman's baby is, how long ago an ex-smoker gave up, and how long said ex-smoker has to live before his tumor kills him.
* In ''[[Star Trek]]'', Vulcan hearing is much more sensitive than human. In the [[Star Trek:
** They also have a heightened sense of smell.
*** That's mostly females.
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** In 4th edition, About half or so of the basic races have low-light vision.
*** Some monsters (and the drow) can see ''without light'' using Darkvision. Absolutely necessary for the drow since they live in the Underdark, a place with almost no natural light. In 3.5 at least they suffer in-game penalties to their abilities if they go out in the daytime since they aren't used to the light of day.
* ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]'' allows a wide variety of
* Shows up a few times in ''[[The World of Darkness]]'' games:
** Vampires (in [[Vampire: The Masquerade|both]] [[Vampire: The Requiem|games]]) can acquire the Discipline of Auspex, which allows those who've just gotten into it to increase their senses by superhuman levels. Of course, this comes with the downside of being knocked for a loop by sudden sensory changes.
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** Enhanced Smell: a sense of smell "equal to that of a bloodhound", giving them the ability to identify people and objects by smell, track recent trails, and ascertain the health and emotional state of nearby people.
** Additionally, there are a few augmentations that provide the character with whole new senses: [[Blindfolded Vision|echolocation]], direction sense, electrical sense, radiation sense, chemical sniffers, nanoscopic vision, lidar, and radar (although these last four are only available to synthmorphs).
* The [[Bio Augmentation]] process for ''[[Warhammer
** Additionally the ear implant removes any capacity for motion sickness, and the taste modification works in conjunction with a stomach implant which allows a marine to access the genetic information or memories of the dead [[I'm a Humanitarian|by eating parts of their corpses.]] [[Brain Food|Generally consuming brain matter is the most efficient way to do it.]]
== Toys ==
* Played with/Deconstructed in ''[[Bionicle]]''.[[Badass Normal|Dalu]]'s Chargers can temporarily enhance one of her enemies' senses, which serves as a distraction as they try to cope with their new abilities. Gali actually went temporarily insane [[Go Mad
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* Gwen's soulstone power in ''[[Earthsong]]''.
* From ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'':
** Schlock himself is a Carboscilicate Amorph, who has been described as having "Molecular recognition better than a whole team of bloodhounds", allowing him to easily identify people by smell or taste. Being able to hear with the body surface while constantly changing form also have pretty good prerequisites - while a ship's internal sensors detect an active "bone-phone" by presence of faint vibration in the carrier's skull, Schlock can recognize those sounds ''better than the actual recipient''. Active countermeasures [//www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-03-29 don't always stop this], either. Arguably, he also classifies as having superior eyesight, not because his eyes are particularly good, but because of how many he can use at once, and the fact that he can move them around at will - thus allowing him to determine the altitude, speed, and climb-rate of an aircraft through triangulation.
{{quote|'''Colonel Menendez''': He can hear us?
'''Massey''': He can hear our heartbeats.
'''Schlock''': (looking in his duirection back through one-way mirror) I can hear what you had for lunch.}}
** Ebbirnoth as an Unioc have a single eye almost the size of a human head. It allows him to see microscopic details, discern colors better than a human and use binoculars only if they show something far outside visible light.
** "Legs" is Frellenti has a long, prehensile tongue, giving her a superb sense of taste.
** The Fobott'r have a very fine sense of touch at the tip of their fingers and can read fine engravings on metal plates by holding them in their hands. A plate the size of a human hand can hold a Fobott'r's entire geneology and life history, they call it a "tlumnph".
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' Snookums the Tentacle Bunny is a [[Kaiju]] who got [[Incredible Shrinking Man|shrunk]] to the size of a basketball. Snookums still has all the nerve endings of a huge creature, now compressed down to a small space, granting him
* Terezi from ''[[Homestuck]]'' is blind, but she can approximate sight by smelling colors and occasionally tasting them as well for greater clarity. She isn't really treated as having a superhuman ability to smell ''normal'' smells, but it counts anyway. (She's [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|an]] [[All Trolls Are Different|alien]], but the trolls' senses are basically the same as humans' in general. Except for the part where about a third of them have psychic powers, but that's not the point.)
* Michelle of ''[[Skin Deep]]'' can [http://www.skindeepcomic.com/archive/issue-four-page-8/ read a magazine] from high on a cliff due to her being a sphinx (part lion and part eagle). Merial on the hand can see well underwater but needs glasses on land.
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* Vampires in ''[[The Kingfisher]]'' seem to have all senses heightened. Occasionally a human will be differentiated in the comic with a fiery aura, which represents a vampire observing their body heat.
* In ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' vampires have very good sense of smell; werewolves (also?) got "dog ears".
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* Wildmutt, one of Ben's alien forms in ''[[Ben 10]]'' has no eyes, but can navigate through smell, echolocation, infrared sensing, a combination of those, or something similar. It isn't entirely clear.
* ''[[Bravestarr]]''. [[Expository Theme Tune|BRAVESTARR! Eyes of the hawk, ears of the wolf.]]
* ''[[Freakazoid!]]'': Who could forget [[Candle Jack]]? You know. The guy would whisk you away whenever you said his na...
** Fooled ya, didn't I? But still, he does do that of
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