The two most important telepaths in the Marvel universe are Professor X and Jean Grey. The two most important telepaths in the DC universe are the Martian Manhunter and Saturn Girl. (Marvel), Martian Manhunter/J’onn J’onzz (DC), Miss Martian/M’gann M’orzz (DC), Nate Gray/X-Man (Marvel), Psimon (DC), Psylocke (Marvel), Rachel Summers/Marvel Girl/Phoenix (Marvel), Sage (Marvel), Saturn Girl (DC), Stepford Cuckoos (Marvel), Tempest (DC), The Goblin Queen (Marvel), Tomorrow Woman (DC). The following 22 comic book characters in DC and Marvel comics have telepathy: Aqualad (DC), Aquaman (DC), Black Bolt (Marvel), Blindfold (Marvel), Cable (Marvel), Chamber (Marvel), Charles Xavier/Professor X (Marvel), Emma Frost/White Queen (Marvel), Jean Grey/Phoenix (Marvel), M.O.D.O.K. Listing all the psychics in Manga would be a task only the most dedicated otaku would attempt. Some Manga publishers can only be described as cottage industries in which the writer, artist and publisher are one person working out of an office. However, the Manga industry is fragmented into dozens of large and small publishing companies unlike American comic books that are dominated by DC Comics and Marvel Comics. I am an avid reader of both American and Japanese comic books and do suspect psychics are more prominent in Japanese than American comic books and perhaps this would be a good subject of a future study. This study did not look at Japanese comic books in depth which are generally referred to as Manga. This investigation focused on comic book heroes in titles published by DC Comics and Marvel Comics. There is a general perception that there are more psychic characters in comic books than in any other medium. There is a tendency to label various superpowers such as magic and control of electricity as “psychic” in anime and these examples are not listed since I think this is a misuse of the term psychic. Probably the most famous computer game with psychics and an anime style is Psychic Force. Arael is one of the few anime psychics that is only a telepath. Overall, there seem to be more psychics with the power of mediumship than in American comic books. The following anime deal with mediumship: Ghost Hound, Ghost Hunt, Mokke, Natsume’s Book of Friends, and XxxHOLIC for a total of five. Mai Taniyama has the power of retrocognition. Pokemon has several psychic creatures including: Cresselia, Deoxys, Misty’s Psyduck, Misty’s Togetic, Porygon. The following anime characters have various powers: Almayce, Eva-Beatrice, Genocyber, Hiroto Sakurai, Mai Kuju, and Rion Steiner.
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The following anime series deal with psychics with various powers: Psychic Academy, Telepathy Shōjo Ran, and Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha. Akira is a powerful telekinetic who in turn evolves into a reality warper. One of the most famous “comic book” psychics does come from Japan and is the anime titled Akira that in turn was based on a Manga series from Katsuhiro Otomo. This article will focus on the five powers traditionally associated with psychics including mediumship, precognition, retrocognition, telekinesis. There needs to be some sort of system for determining what powers constitute psychic powers. This tendency to call just about any super powered hero a psychic because the term is “cool” is especially overdone in Japanese fiction.
Almost any power imaginable can be duplicated and given a psionic explanation. The focus on this investigation is to compare and contrast the sort of psychic powers one encounters dealing with psychics in history versus fiction. Whether or not historical psychics really had psychic powers is not within the scope of this article. For example, people who fly would only appear on a list of fictional characters. Psychics are one of the few categories of characters of fiction that also seemingly appear in real life. Psychics have various mental powers including telepathy and clairvoyance.
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