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At its most basic level, it functions as a short range radio, allowing the character to pick up the thoughts of those around him. Sometimes, it has limitations such as touch or proximity, or only being able to 'hear' rather than 'see' thoughts. A common hurdle comes from being unable to probe deeper into the minds of those around them, as well as being something of a [[Fainting Seer]] whenever an especially strong willed or horrifying character is around. Psychic overload is also common in crowds, represented by a [[Psychic Nosebleed]]. Being a passive receptor and [[Hearing Voices|not being able to shut]] [[A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read|other people's thoughts]] out can easily drive a psychic insane, making this potentially [[Blessed with Suck]].
More advanced uses of
At its strongest, a telepath will be able to [[Mind Control]] others, sometimes even to the point of [[Demonic Possession|possessing their bodies]], create [[Fake Memories]] after applying [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]], create a [[Split Personality]] and let it [[Split Personality Takeover|take over]], or in general be a terrifying god who can [[Mind Rape]] their opponents.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has a number of examples; Negi displays very limited mind reading ability in the first chapter (he puts his hand on the target's head and gets maybe 2 words out of it). Later on, the Pactio cards are introduced, which allows Negi and his partners to [[Psychic Link|communicate telepathically]]. In addition, Nodoka gets a book that allows her to read people's thoughts as her artifact; after an upgrade she can essentially listen to the thoughts of anyone whose name she knows...while another upgrade lets her find out anybody's name.
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== [[Fan
* Voldemort in ''[[My Immortal]]'' can read minds, because he "[[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe|hath]] [[Rouge Angles of Satin|tele]]''[[Mind Over Matter|kinesis]]''"
* In ''[[Light and Dark -
* In [[Kira Is Justice]], there is the telepathy necklace, which lets Justice and Landras talk to each other via telepathy. This is [[Enforced Trope|enforced]] to fix the fact that Light talked to Ryuk in his room without his family noticing. [[Fetish Fuel|And...]]
* The ''[[Daria]]/
* In ''[[With Strings Attached]]'', the Kansael gives John the ability to communicate telepathically through water. Mostly this means he has to touch the others to “connect their water-strings,” but he can also connect them via a puddle, and he has much longer range in a body of water like the ocean, though just how long is not known. Nor is it known whether he can do more than just talk. He can, however, tap into Ringo's mindsight.
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* [[Hell's Gate|Sharona]]'s Voices have perfect recall and can send and receieve telepathic messages to each other, including sensory information - sight, sound, smell, and touch, but can't read minds. On the other hand, Sifters can't send messages, but they can tell when other people are lying or telling the truth.
* [[The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries|Sookie Stackhouse]] views her telepathy as a [[Blessed with Suck|curse]] and usually tries hard to block out other people's thoughts.
* Mentioned at the end of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', when Gandalf, Galadriel, Celeborn and Elrond appear to communicate without speaking. [[J. R. R.
* Kris/Deliann's "flashes" in ''[[The Acts of Caine|Blade of Tyshalle]]''.
* Many people in the [[Mercedes Lackey]] series, [[Heralds of Valdemar]], have this ability; it's called "Mindspeech".
* [[Jakub Wedrowycz]] has this ability. He refers to it as a "frequency" to which one must tune himself, much like a radio.
* The technological level of
* In the [[Firebird Trilogy]], both the Sentinels and the Shuhr have telepathic powers. The Sentinels are the "good guys", with strict and strictly enforced limits on how they are allowed to use their powers. The Shuhr are much less pleasant, as they do not put any limits on their use of power, leading to rather frequent [[Mind Manipulation]] among those they come in contact with (including the less powerful among their own race).
* Anyone in morph in ''[[Animorphs]]'' has this ability. And Andalites and a few other races have it as part of their natural abilities.
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** This is actually present in ALL Time Lords. It's a trait of the species, as witnessed by the Master all the way back to the Third Doctor, and mentioned specifically by the Fourth Doctor in the Deadly Assassin.
** The [[Sapient Ship|TARDIS]] is also telepathic; she most notably uses the power to translate for the Doctor and companions. However, she can directly communicate with them, although a human may need to look into her heart.
* The Auronar in ''[[Blake's 7
* In ''[[Farscape]]'', members of the Scarran's ruling caste all have a certain degree of telepathic power; most of them use it for forcing their captives to tell the truth while under their influence of their [[Kill It with Fire|heat projection]], though a few have used it to read the surface thoughts of others.
** The Skreeth assassin, who can telepathically speak through anyone wearing its bio-organic reciever (even over thousands of light years away) and read minds by touch.
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** And of course, there's Maldis, the vampiric [[Evil Sorcerer]], who knew all the details of John Crichton's life without being told. As he said once "Your mind is an open book. Big print and lots of pictures!"
* In ''[[Firefly]]'', River possesses one-way telepathic abilities, being able to read minds. However, she has [[Power Incontinence|the inability to control this]], the thoughts she picks up are far from coherent or clear, and [[A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read|they are not conducive to sanity.]] It doesn't help that she's a [[Sanity Slippage|traumatized]] [[Training from Hell|wreck]] thanks to [[Mind Rape|her experiences]] at [[School for Scheming|the Academy]].
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
* In ''[[Warhammer 40,000|Dark Heresy]]'', psykers can have a range of these powers, from simple telepathy, through mind control, to full blown mind rape.▼
* Naturally, virtually every superhero RPG as well as most science fiction-, horror-, or fantasy-themed ones will have some version of this. In the last case, even if the word 'telepathy' never comes up and psychic powers as such ostensibly don't exist, magic spells and items allowing their user to read or control the minds of others will still be pretty standard fare.▼
* ''[[Traveller]]'' deals with this in an elegant way. The Zhodani Consulate is ruled by a caste of Psi-nobles. Everywhere else psionics tends to be distrusted and severely limited. This way the PC can have widely used telepathy or not, just by being in a different part of The Traveller Universe.▼
* Telepathy is a standard blue ability in ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]''. The [http://magiccards.info/m10/en/74.html Telepathy] card allows you to see your opponent's hand. There are many variants on the ability, usually involving revealing hidden information in some way.▼
* The current page image is that of the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' card, 'Mind Haxorz'.<ref>[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Mind_Haxorz Yes, that is how it's spelled.]</ref> Its effects is functionally equivalent to reading your opponent's mind, too: by paying 500 Life Points, you get to see the opponent's hand and all their face-down cards on the field.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Mint Blancmanche of ''[[Galaxy Angel (video game)|Galaxy Angel]]'', although telepathy runs in her family. She once tries to use it to see how the [[The One Guy|main character]] feels about the five Angels on board the [[Cool Starship|Elsior]]. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* ''[[Nethack]]'' has this as one of many obtainable abilities: when blinded in any manner, you can see the exact location of any monster on the current floor that can think.
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'', Link often receives telepathic messages from the quest [[Mentors|mentor]] or the princess.
** Although it's usually through the use of a magic artifact or an item, such as the Ocarina or a magical pendant.
* Appears as a technique in ''[[Golden Sun]]''.
* In ''[[Psi-Ops: The
* Similar to ''Psi Ops,'' ''[[Second Sight]]'' has this as one of the two powers John doesn't unlock- the other being [[Deflector Shields]]. Oddly, the only psychic in the entire game that uses direct telepathy at any point is the remarkably ambiguous Jayne Wilde.
* ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'': Hitting the [[Action Command]] when using Mallow's "Psychopath" spell reveals a sentence of the affected enemy's thoughts.
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== [[Visual Novels]] ==
* {{spoiler|Kotori Shirakawa}} in the ''[[Da Capo]]'' [[Dating Sim]]
* In the [[Murder Mystery]] [[Visual Novel]] ''[[Jisei]]'', a voice that only the protagonist can hear tries to help the main character with his investigation. She is able to transmit her thoughts into his mind and read his thoughts.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Project 0]]'' Ciro uses telepathy to broadcast a [[Badass Boast]] to an [https://web.archive.org/web/20111211193910/http://www.centralcitytower.com/2010/12/project-0-page-208-whistling.html entire] [https://web.archive.org/web/20111211122016/http://www.centralcitytower.com/2010/12/page-209-fair-warning.html enemy battleship] just before it explodes.
* In ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]]'', the [[Horny Devils|'cubi]] have thought hearing as an innate ability, which starts to manifest in their twenties, along with empathy, ''etc.''
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' all the Lysinda circle vampires have this ability, though Sam rarely seems to use it.
* The [[Freak Angels]] make heavy use of their telepathic abilities, both to communicate quickly and easily, and to [[Instant Expert|absorb knowledge]] on their areas of specialty.
* In ''[[Juathuur]]'', sometimes juathuurs communicate with each other this way. Both participants must be willing.
* The [[Space Elves|Loroi]] of [[Outsider]] have a variety of psychic abilities, mind talking being among them.
* In ''[[Think Before You Think]]'', Brian has the ability to read minds.
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* Aqualad of the ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' animated series claims to have telepathy, but he has yet to use it on anyone who isn't a <s>fish</s> [[You Fail Biology Forever|sea creature]].
* Ribbon from the original ''[[My Little Pony]]'' was telepathic, and also capable of sending [[Talking in Your Dreams|dream messages]].
* Twilight Sparkle from ''[[My Little Pony:
▲== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
▲* In ''[[Warhammer 40,000|Dark Heresy]]'', psykers can have a range of these powers, from simple telepathy, through mind control, to full blown mind rape.
▲* Naturally, virtually every superhero RPG as well as most science fiction-, horror-, or fantasy-themed ones will have some version of this. In the last case, even if the word 'telepathy' never comes up and psychic powers as such ostensibly don't exist, magic spells and items allowing their user to read or control the minds of others will still be pretty standard fare.
▲* [[Traveller]] deals with this in an elegant way. The Zhodani Consulate is ruled by a caste of Psi-nobles. Everywhere else psionics tends to be distrusted and severely limited. This way the PC can have widely used telepathy or not, just by being in a different part of The Traveller Universe.
▲* Telepathy is a standard blue ability in ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]''. The [http://magiccards.info/m10/en/74.html Telepathy] card allows you to see your opponent's hand. There are many variants on the ability, usually involving revealing hidden information in some way.
▲* The current page image is that of the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' card, 'Mind Haxorz'.<ref>[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Mind_Haxorz Yes, that is how it's spelled.]</ref> Its effects is functionally equivalent to reading your opponent's mind, too: by paying 500 Life Points, you get to see the opponent's hand and all their face-down cards on the field.
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