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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]]''/''[[Waif Prophet]] Aura, who was the [[MacGuffin]] for ''[[.hack//Sign]]''. Zefie seems similar at first, but it quickly becomes apparent that she's really sarcastic, mischievous, and outspoken.
** And occasionally unhesitatingly violent.
* Mashiro Kazahana from ''[[MaiMy-HiME]]'', who spends almost the whole series confined to a wheelchair, and appears to be no older than Mai's kid brother Takumi. In addition to being the current headmaster of Fuuka Academy, {{spoiler|1=she was the previous HiME Festival's champion and master of Mai's CHILD Kagutsuchi, ''[[Vicious Cycle|three hundred years ago]]''. }}
* 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 name--Maryname—Mary is the name given to her by the religious order who took her in.
* [[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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* 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 [[G La DOSGLaDOS]] being pecked by birds.}}
 
 
== Webcomics ==
* 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 [[Troll|trollstroll]]s - [[Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl|Aradia Megido]] and [[Mad Oracle|Sollux Captor]] (a male example) - have the ability to hear the voices of the dead, who foreshadow the future for them; Sollux loses it upon being blinded.
 
 
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