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* Tomoe Hotaru in the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' manga.
* Alvis in ''[[Last Exile]]''.
* Subverted by Zefie, in ''[[.hack//Sign|.hack//Legend of the Twilight Bracelet]]''. Her "mother" is the [[Creepy Child]]''/''
** And occasionally unhesitatingly violent.
* Mashiro Kazahana from ''[[
* Quon from ''[[RahXephon]]''.
* The Young/Old people from ''[[Akira]]'', specifically the bedridden Kyouko.
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** [[Spear Counterpart|Kakyo]] and [[Ill Girl|Kotori]] qualify as well.
* Played with in the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' movie. Sulia Gaudeamus is a waifish [[Healing Hands|healer]] without any fighting abilities and who's got an [[Psychic Link]] to the [[Big Bad]] ( {{spoiler|read, she's the twin sister of the guy who's got said [[Big Bad]] [[Enemy Within|inside of him]]}}), but she's more of [[The Smart Guy]] of the group due to [[Mr. Exposition|her encyclopedic knowledge of the myths behind the whole deal]]. Therefore, her insight in the plot is not necessarily related to epiphanies.
* Mary Magdalene in ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', an orphan girl whose prophetic powers were so strong and overwhelming, she forgot her own childhood and
* [[Oracular Urchin|Rika]] from ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' appears to be this. In fact, {{spoiler|she doesn't have any kind of future-reading powers. She's just already been through the future - and died horribly in it - hundreds and hundreds of times}}. Can you blame her for trying to tell someone?
* In ''[[Nightschool]]'', it's noted that "seers who are still sane are rare." Marina, a pixieish young seer who can't be much older than 13 or so, has to regularly take special medication in order to stay lucid, but her visions get compromised as a side effect. Unfortunately, her employers at the start of the series care more about receiving accurate predictions about the stock market than her mental health. When Marina's [[Badass Teacher|teacher]] finds this out, the employers are rightly [[Curb Stomp Battle|curbstomped]]
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*** [[The Stand|M-O-O-N]] and that spells Tom Cullen. Laws, yes. Not to mention [[Magical Negro|Mother Abagail]] herself...
* Fiver, the [[Oracular Urchin|runt of the litter]] "seer rabbit", whose visions of Man's encroachment drive the plot in the various adaptations of ''[[Watership Down]]'', is a nonhuman variant of this character. This is especially played up in the animated TV series, where he spent an episode terrified that his visions actually ''caused'' the dangers he predicted.
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* Jenny Wren in [[Charles Dickens]]' novel ''Our Mutual Friend'' - a tiny, crippled teenager, who has otherworldly visions, and is also an unusually perceptive and insightful observer of the characters around her. These two abilities are interconnected, and both suggested to be either a [[Disability Superpower|compensation for or result of her disability]]. Her insights and her visions help resolve one of the novel's main plots. However, it should be also pointed out that although her abilities and plot function fit the trope perfectly, Jenny's personality is much closer to the [[Deadpan Snarker]].
* The mute child Estrella in ''[[Ea Cycle]]''.
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* Klara from ''[[Pathologic]]''.
* The Forecaster of ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', a psychic orphan who wears a psychic inhibitor and can be paid to give his prophecies on certain things pertaining to either the upcoming Battle of Hoover Dam, the Mojave itself and even The Courier.
* The "I'm different" Turret you can rescue in ''[[Portal 2]]'' foreshadows just about everything that happens later on, from {{spoiler|Cave Johnson's Lemon speech to the old testing areas to [[
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* Jonas of ''[[The Phoenix Requiem]]'' is a [[Rare Male Example]].
* ''[[Homestuck]]'' has them pretty much everywhere, being that the main cast are all thirteen years old or the equivalent and that half of them are girls. Everyone with a dreamself on Prospit can use the clouds of Skaia to see glimpses of the future, as first shown with [[Genki Girl|Jade Harley]]; virtually everyone has lost this ability with the deaths of their dreamselves, Jade being the first to lose it. The Seer [[Character Class]], whose two seen members are both female, has a more comprehensive prophet ability, being able to see the outcome of any possible course and thus discern the correct future path. [[Blind Seer|Terezi Pyrope]], the Seer of Mind, is well-versed in this ability; [[Black Magician Girl|Rose Lalonde]], the Seer of Light, never gave herself the opportunity to learn to use or develop it. Finally, two of the [[
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