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* Toucan Sam, the mascot of Froot Loops, has the ability to smell out his cereal from up to several miles away. This probably counts, as most toucans probably don't have nearly so well honed a sense of smell.

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== Anime and Manga ==

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== Comic Books ==

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* Puma in the ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' comics. He easily determined Spider-Man's secret identity.

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* [[Wolverine]] and Sabertooth have this as a major ability. Wolverine's makes him the go-to person for identifying impersonators; it seems that even if you can change everything from your voice, hair color, and the shape and color of your body, you can't change how you smell.

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** He's even used a ''lack'' of smell to identify that something's fishy, likening it to a big dark spot in the middle of an otherwise well-lit room.

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* [[Daredevil]] is another comic book example. Matt's sense of smell is sometimes exaggerated beyond all credibility (making him able to smell, say, what people ate ''last week''), especially when they're downplaying the radar sense.

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* [[Blade]]'s sense of smell is slightly superhuman and he's especially good at sniffing out vampires.

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* Wolfsbane, a werewolf in the original [[New Mutants]], has this.

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** As does Catspaw, a were-giant purple cat in the original Hellions.

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* So does Sensor Girl of the [[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]], who is actually {{spoiler|Princess Projectra}}.

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== Anime & Manga ==

* This is one of [[Naruto|Kiba's]] special abilities (eventually said to grow to the point that it's ''better'' than the [[Beast Man|dogs he would fight with]]), though it blows up in his face spectacularly ([[Fartillery|pun intended]]) during the [[Tournament Arc]] battle against Naruto. The worse thing? [[Crowning Moment of Funny|It was *hilarious*]]

** Him and his clan are really only the most outstanding example, as both the Third Hokage and Kakashi have shown to have rather acute sense of smell, the latter of which became critical to finding Akatsuki member Sasori.

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* It's been stated that [[Toriko]] has a nose better than a bloodhound's.

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== Comic Books ==

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* Puma in the ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' comics. He easily determined Spider-Man's secret identity.

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* [[Wolverine]] and Sabertooth have this as a major ability. Wolverine's makes him the go-to person for identifying impersonators; it seems that even if you can change everything from your voice, hair color, and the shape and color of your body, you can't change how you smell.

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** He's even used a ''lack'' of smell to identify that something's fishy, likening it to a big dark spot in the middle of an otherwise well-lit room.

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* [[Daredevil]] is another comic book example. Matt's sense of smell is sometimes exaggerated beyond all credibility (making him able to smell, say, what people ate ''last week''), especially when they're downplaying the radar sense.

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* [[Blade]]'s sense of smell is slightly superhuman and he's especially good at sniffing out vampires.

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* Wolfsbane, a werewolf in the original [[New Mutants]], has this.

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** As does Catspaw, a were-giant purple cat in the original Hellions.

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* So does Sensor Girl of the [[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]], who is actually {{spoiler|Princess Projectra}}.

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* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' comic strip "The Love Invasion", the Doctor is able to work out that the Lend-a-Hand girls aren't human because they smell odd. Rose even refers to his sense of smell as "the infallible space nose".

== ~~Fanfiction~~ ==

== Fan Works ==

* In 'Nexus' This is how Jack was able to realize he was about to get attacked by Scarecrows. He also deduces {{spoiler|that while in the Demon World,}} that if he could smell the demons, they could smell him. More specifically they could smell his {{spoiler|Sparda blood.}}

== Film ==

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== Live-Action TV ==

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'':

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* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' comic strip "The Love Invasion", the Doctor is able to work out that the Lend-a-Hand girls aren't human because they smell odd. Rose even refers to his sense of smell as "the infallible space nose".

** Similarly, one of the things that tips him off about a clone in the episode "The Poison Sky" is her smell.

** Poked fun at when a character in the episode "The Empty Child" wanted to know how the Doctor had managed to follow her. Note: this was when the Doctor was being played by [[Christopher Eccleston]], who has a fairly prominent nose and ears.

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== Newspaper Comics ==

* In ''[[Prickly City]]'', when Winslow claims a [[Superman]] origin (in a [[Multiple Choice Past]]), he says his super power is "smell, of course," pointing at his nose.

== Tabletop Games ==

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** Without a doubt, however, troglodytes have the best sense of smell in the game. To them, scent is more important than sight. They identify everything and everyone by scent, and often smear blood, dirt, or other material on trees or stones to leave messages for other troglodytes. For example, a troglodyte could tell from one of the smears that a festival would be held at a village several miles to the north, possibly even the exact time and day and whether he was ''personally'' formally invited or not. Their sense of smell is ''that'' acute. Naturally, they always lair in caves where the entrance is upwind from them, so it's hard to catch them unawares. Ironically, to most other races, troglodytes have a ''really'' bad stench, which as far as game stats go, is a type of Poison that can nauseate foes.

== ~~Videogames~~ ==

== Video Games ==

* Sveta in [[Golden Sun: Dark Dawn]] can find monster tracks by using solely her sense of smell, although this skill is only used two or three times through the whole game.

* In [[Persona 4]] Teddie literally "smells" the presence of a human trapped in the TV World. He even said the titular phrase and it was hilarious!

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* Many [[Pokémon]] have this ability. In fact, the move ''Odor Sleuth'' takes advantage of this, allowing Ghost Types to be hit with Normal and Fighting type moves and lowering evasion to normal levels, making it quite useful.

== Web Comics ==

== Webcomics ==

* Florence of ''[[Freefall]]'': [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00569.htm (569)] [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1600/fv01600.htm (1600)] [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2000/fc01946.htm (1946)]. May be arbitrarily overridden by the [[Rule of Funny]] (or the [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1100/fv01093.htm French ninjas] would never work(or maybe the French ninjas were just that good)).

{{quote|'''Niomi''': How good is that nose of yours?

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* ''[[Unsounded]]''. Sette's sense of smell borders on supernatural. She seems able to [[Supernatural Sensitivity|smell magic]].

* In ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (webcomic)|No Rest for The Wicked]]'', [http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/02-16.html how Red leads them through] [[The Lost Woods]], ignoring [[Stay on the Path]].

== Web Original ==

* Several Avatars of animal spirits in the [[Whateley Universe]] have this: Mongoose (possessor of a mongoose spirit), Aquerna (has a squirrel spirit), and Kodiak (a bear spirit) are just three of them. There's also the kid with the super-sensitive nose who passed out from the smell when Jade came to class, even though she was sure she had gotten the smell of sewer and monster guts off her already.

== Western Animation ==