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* 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]]
* A subtle instance in [[Tekkon Kinkreet]]: [[Constantly Curious|White]] is exceedingly immature for his age, and only as physically strong as a small ten-year-old can be expected to be. But at the same time, he occasionally shows a nearly supernatural insight and seems very in-tune to Black and the city around them.
* [[After War Gundam X (Anime)|Tiffa Adil]] ([[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|no, not that one]]) is shown numerous times predicting the future and uses this ability to drive the plot at one point. However just as often her ([[It Got Worse|often VERY bleak]]) predictions are [[Screw Destiny|proven wrong]] by her [[Hot
** The poor girl is also quite [[Blessed With Suck]], as her future-reading powers and empathy come from her being among the ''very'' few [[Last of His Kind|surviving]] [[Telepathic Spacemen|Newtypes]]... and are the reason why [[Barrier Maiden|everyone pursues her.]]
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* Maia in ''[[The 4400]]''
* Kes in ''[[Star Trek Voyager]]'' has a highly developed brain, as a result she can communicate telepathically, see the future or possible alternate futures and even prophesy events that occur after her physical death.
* Tim in ''[[
* The girl with the tarot cards in ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]''.
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* In ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]'', you encounter a small child in a village called Ember who prophesies that the entire village will be slaughtered soon. Though everyone else is doomed, the child also tells you he himself will survive if one of your party members offers up his hunting knife. {{spoiler|Later, when you've been framed for the destruction of the village, the kid comes in handy at your trial, using both his testimony and his mysterious power of prophecy to make the prosecuting attorney decidedly uncomfortable.}}
** A random prophet in Storm of Zehir sees the coming of 4th edition rules. Seriously, the transition was canonically the cause of huge disasters in the Forgotten Realms setting as the magic system shifted.
* The siblings Ninian and Nils from ''[[Fire Emblem]] 7'' fit this trope a bit, [[My Significance Sense Is Tingling|being able to sense danger]] among other things (which [[Spoony Bard|don't include fighting]], though, which makes some players think [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|they're useless * as a whole* in battle]]).
** Semi-subversion with Micaiah. She has [[White-Haired Pretty Girl|waif-like qualities]], she senses the future, she can [[Cursed With Awesome|heal others by taking on their wounds]]... and she's also the [[Jeanne D Archetype]] of ''Radiant Dawn'', complete with leading [[La Résistance]] and being more popular than the king.
* Fon Master Ion from ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'' is a [[Rare Male Example]] of this trope ([[Viewer Gender Confusion|although you wouldn't know this by looking at him.]])
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