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* In the ''Fanfic/TranscendenceAU'', Willow Pines has a form of the Sight where she can perceive people’s emotions as colors. Dipper has the same power, due to his demon powers, and helps teach Willow how to manage it.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', at the cost of making him nearsighted, Link's senses can be honed so he can see spirits, insects of darkness, and digging spots when in wolf form. The game claims it's just a visual representation of his keen sense of smell while in wolf form, but the [[Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaAkiraHimekawa manga adaptation]] refines it to be a more supernatural power specific to the Sacred Beast (hence the third-eye pattern on his facial fur).

* ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'' has the Dark Vision ability, which highlights enemies through walls as well as showing their cone of vision.

* Tara in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' sensed that Buffy [[NotHimself wasn't really Buffy]], after Faith did the [[FreakyFridayFlip body switch]] in ''Who Are You?'' because her aura was "fragmented", as if someone had forced something into it that didn't belong.

* Auras in ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' are seen only by demons who steal the sight of children. They then use their new-found Aura Vision to seek out people who are supposed to do great good, and kill them before they do.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "Alien Radio", Stan Harbinger gains the ability to see the aliens that live inside the bodies of certain humans. He typically sees a golden outline of the alien superimposed over the relevant human.

* ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' TOS episode "The Purple Testament" is about a soldier who can see the auras of men who are about to die. At the end of the episode he happens to glance at a mirror...
%%* Leena in ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'' had this ability.

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* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', Riolu and Lucario can sense auras to read people's emotions and see when blindfolded.

* ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'': Sword Maiden is blind, but retains her ability to see auras, which allows her to navigate in spite of her handicap.

* ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'': The Extra Skill "Magic Sense" allows for this by sensing magicules in the air and within living beings. In fact, this was Rimuru's primary mode of "sight" for some time post his reincarnation since [[BlobMonster slimes]] don't have eyes.

For other information displays within a person's field of view, see {{HUD}}, StatOVision, and InfraredXrayCamera.

* In the ''Fanfic/{{Daemorphing}}'' series, Hork-Bajir can see the Dust (golden particles that gather around sapient beings), which they call ''hrala''. [[spoiler:Turns out the Chee had this ability too, but they disabled it after their creators went extinct.]]
* ''Fanfic/FrailEquilibrium'': Tess' ability to see auras is what lets her immediately know what Dante really is.
* ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'': Unsurprisingly, Rei, her being a HalfHumanHybrid. The special thing about her Aura Vision is that it allows her to [[spoiler:''see everyone's bonds.'' For example, Asuka and Shinji's loving relationship is like a blazing fire to her eyes]].

* Lavender Lace, the protagonist of the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'' story ''Fanfic/AWorldOfIllusions'', can see ''imaginativeness.'' The Great And Powerful Trixie glows like a beacon to her perceptions.
* In ''Fanfic/IncarnationOfLegends'', Odin has the ability to perceive the souls of others and determine what color they are. He's eager to try to recruit Bell after seeing his completely pure soul, but he turns his nose up at Kojiro's, comparing looking at it to watching a rainbow while drunk and drowning, with so many twists and turns that it's nauseating. Odin apparently uses this ability quite a bit, which his own Valkyries consider disgusting and almost perverted as he's judging all of them by their souls.
* ''Fanfic/NoCharmEqual'': As a Cupid, Harry is able to see the romantic potential auras of humans, which are color coded by how open they are to a romantic relationship. There are other branches of Cupids who can see familial and platonic relationship auras.
* Trixie Lulamoon has a spell to let her see magic in ''FanFic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse''. Especially useful because her primary way of learning spells is [[PowerCopying seeing others cast them and copying what they're doing]]. Not so useful when she looks at an alicorn performing magic, though. The last time Trixie watched Luna raise the moon, she was blinded for days.

* ''Fanfic/ReadTheFinePrintEvangelion'': Rei sees souls as glowing lights. She finds Shinji and Asuka disturbing because he is "lightless", whereas Asuka's "light" is blinding (since he sold his soul to her. Long story).
* Shows up in the ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''/''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' {{crossover}} story, ''Fanfic/SayItThrice''. Distinctively different than Danny's [[SpiderSense Ghost Sense]], some ghosts can sense things about other ghosts and supernatural stuff. According to Betelgeuse's narrative, ectoplasm-based ghosts practically have a spotlight on them while humans have a faint aura (though the ones who get involved with the supernatural are a little brighter). Apparently, Danny, being half-human and half ectoplasm-based ghost, is really distinctive.
* In ''Fanfic/LegacySekiroKimetsuNoYaiba', Kiyoshi's clan, the Ametsuchi, had the innate ability to perceive the chi of others. Kiyoshi believed that he was the only one left who could until he meets Wolf. As a result, the elemental effects of the different Breath styles are explained as an expression of the chi of a particular demon slayer.
* [[PhysicalGod Daniel]] from ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'' can see other people's auras, their colors and perceive how damaged they are. When he meets Asuka he says that her soul is "radiating pain like a city on fire".
* In ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'', Shinji is capable of seeing souls due to his ''[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Tzeentchian]]'' training. When he met Asuka, he could see -- and taste -- her soul before seeing her physically: "She was bright and active and so filled with beautiful rage and pain and confidence and so many delicious emotions to experience."
* In the ''Fanfic/{{Domoverse}}'', BlindSeer Caroline sees emotions and uses that to substitute for her sight.

* In the ''Videogame/{{Undertale}}'' FanFic [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/Visiontale Visiontale,]] [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8779618/chapters/20125687 posted on Archive of Our Own,]] monsters and humans use this to check each other's stats.
* In the work ''Strandpiel'' by Creator/AAPessimal, eight-year-old Ruth Smith-Rhodes-Stibbons has a terrifying "dream" where she revisits a desperate fight from many years before she was born; she is forced, by a malevolent external agency, to spectate the desperate fight her mother had[[note]]Her mother, normally a lethal weapon, was handicapped by being heavily pregnant, with Ruth's oldest sister: go to the tale ''Hyperemesis Gravidarum''[[/note]] with a brutal psychopathic killer intent on murder. Despite being terrified, Ruth -- who has a streak of magic inherited from her father, Ponder Stibbons -- realizes everybody has an aura and can be seen as enclosed in a halo of colored light. A gifted artist, she resolves to try and paint this later. Ruth watches as the angry and evil colors surrounding the killer gather themselves. And then send out lightning flashes of scarlet light aimed at that part of her mother where her unborn sister is. She also sees her mother's BattleAura put out everything it can to deflect this. She realizes, then, that fights are not just conducted on the physical level with swords. Being the daughter of an Assassin, she grasps this too.
* The ''Assassin's Creed'' and ''Temeraire'' crossover fanfiction ''Fanfic/TradeWinds'', as narrated by a post-''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' Desmond, heavily features the Assassins' Eagle Vision from the former work. The Chinese delegation from the second novel of ''Temeraire'' know what Eagle Vision is -- they call it the "Dragon's Eye" -- and can tell Desmond has it, which gets him into hot water because they believe the ability to be limited to the Imperial Family and dragons, of which Desmond is neither. Things get even more complicated when William Laurence develops the ability independently during the events of the story when he's in his thirties, and still yet more complicated when Laurence and Desmond are fed a serum that enhances their Dragon's Eye/Eagle Vision and makes them see auras in even more colors than the AC-canon's red, blue, gray, and gold.
* In the ''Fanfic/TranscendenceAU'', Willow Pines has a form of the Sight where she can perceive people’s emotions as colors. Dipper has the same power, due to his demon powers, and helps teach Willow how to manage it.
* ''Fanfic/BoldoresandBoomsticks'': Since Weiss's use of multiple types of Dust makes many moves redundant, she is studying with Riley and Lucario to learn this ability from them.

* Oakelves in ''Literature/TheEdgeChronicles'' have this.

* Luna and Orlene from ''Literature/IncarnationsOfImmortality''.

* ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'': In "[[Recap/RiveraleS06E06ChapterOneHundredAndOneUnbelievable Unbelievable]]", Betty learns she can see the auras of people who are threats, such as criminals and serial killers. The auras appear as a red light around the enemy she sees.

* Leena in ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'' had this ability.
* ''Series/YediYuz'': Celebrity hypnotist Oşa of "Hayatın Musikisi" possesses the power to both see and feel auras, which he uses to guide his clients to a path of self-actualization. [[SnakeOilSalesman Or so he claims]].

* In ''Manga/BlackClover'', when his vision is taken by Catherine's Ash Curse Magic, Yuno hones his magic sensing, allowing him to see mana in the form of a flock of winged beings to sense her location and defeat her.
* In ''Manga/CastleTownDandelion'', this is the king's RoyaltySuperpower, which allows him to see ColourCodedEmotions.

* The Detect power in ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' can give any character this power, mages get a minor version for free with Magery.
* A power common, in one way or another, to all supernatural beings in the TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness. It comes with an extensive chart of colors relating to emotions. Supernatural auras have their own modifiers (a vampire's colors are pale, a werewolf's is frantic, a ghost's flickers like a dying candle...).
** In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', a vampire can learn to do this. This can be used for various purposes, from reading emotions to identifying a vampire who has committed diablerie (stole another vampire's power by sucking out his soul -- a vampire equivalent of cannibalism, considered the most heinous crime).
** Again in the TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness almost every sort of supernatural character has some form of aural perception. ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' offers the most, since Mages can not only perceive someone's nature and emotional state but can also falsify auras or completely erase an aura.
* The spell ''Deathwatch'' in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' lets the caster see auras around other beings that shows whether they're healthy, wounded, fragile (5 hit points or lower), dead, undead, or none in the case of constructs.

* All magicians (and some "physical adepts", a.k.a. Superpowered Martial Artists) in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' get this for free.

* A temporary ability in ''VideoGame/BattlefieldHeroes'' allows players to see an aura outline of other players through walls and buildings.
* In ''VideoGame/BeyondTwoSouls'', Jodie's [[{{Poltergeist}} poltergeist-like]] companion spirit Aiden can see glowing, [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience color-coded]] auras around people. Blue is the standard color, meaning that Aiden cannot directly affect the person in question. Red indicates that the person can be [[PsychicStrangle choked]], orange indicates that they can be [[DemonicPossession possessed]], and green indicates a sickness or injury that can be [[HealingHands healed]]. Purple is Jodie's color and the color of the spiritual "umbilical cord" that connects the two. Additionally, memories connected to certain objects show up as glowing green wisps.
* Rayne from ''VideoGame/BloodRayne'' can use this to assess health and if someone is aware of her presence.
** It returns in ''VideoGame/BloodRayne2'', sans awareness sense but with the added ability to see and access vampire gates, pinpoint objectives and indicate climbable surfaces.
* Both the Survivors and the Killers of ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'' can unlock Perks and/or Items that let them see the auras of allies, enemies, and objectives.

** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' has the Detect Animal spell. Using it causes creatures to appear as [[EnemyDetectingRadar blips on the mini-map]].
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' expands it to Detect Life, allowing you to see enemies as a vague, pink, cloudy form, even in darkness or through walls. 'Life' is also fairly broadly defined, as undead and nonbiological enemies such as [[WillOTheWisp Wisps]] are also detected.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' has two spells (which are ColourCodedForYourConvenience) and a shout with this effect. "Detect Life" does just that (With blue for allies/neutrals and red for enemimes), while "Detect Dead" will show undead as well as dead creatures (Blue for (un)dead non-enemies and sleeping undead, orange for dead enemies). The the [[LanguageOfMagic Shout]] "Aura Whisper" also allows you to see all creatures which are not dead, but display friend and foe alike as red.
* The monsters in ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}}'' can use their scent ability to see the outlines of various things through walls. It's also color-coordinated, wildlife is yellow, dangerous creatures and technological items are orange, hunters and their tracks are red, and map objectives are purple.
* Rex's Cyber Eye in ''VideoGame/FarCry3BloodDragon'' tags, tracks, and identifies enemies and animals.

* In ''VideoGame/FridayThe13thTheGame'', Jason's "Sense" ability highlights counselors in red. The more fearful a counselor is, the more easily they will show up when Sense is activated. If counselors are hiding in a house, the house will be highlighted. Jason can also see expanding circles that indicate noise generated by the counselors, an ability that isn't reliant on his Sense skill.
* The title superpowered psychopath from the ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' mod ''VideoGame/TheHiddenSource'' has an "aura view" vision mode, letting him easily spot other players in the dark or even through obstacles and walls.

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'': The "Third Eye" ability lets you see the danger level of enemies, which receptacles are hiding treasure, and the identities of potential Confidants by displaying various color-coded auras around the person or item in question.
* In ''VideoGame/ThePersistence'', you can channel dark matter to briefly see the auras of enemies and hazards through any walls or objects in your sight.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Lucario, at least in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl''. [[VideoGame/MetalGear Snake's]] box just wasn't enough...
** Rui, from ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum''. She's the only character able to see the dark purple glow Shadow Pokémon give off. Or, she was until Michael gets his [[Anime/DragonBallZ scouter]]-esque Aura Reader in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness Gale of Darkness]].''
* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' has Infected Vision, allowing you to see active/inactive infected, and water towers that are currently incubating hunters.
** It also has Thermal Vision, which highlights heat signatures (non-combatants aren't highlighted).
* Nick Scryer from ''VideoGame/PsiOpsTheMindgateConspiracy'', allows him to see levels of awareness, the past, [[FaceHugger aura beasts]] and stealth mines.
* In ''VisualNovel/SablesGrimoire'', Sable can see aether by concentrating.
* Pyan Pau from ''VideoGame/TheSpiritEngine2'' claims to have this, though we must take his word for it. Mostly it tells him there's something wrong with Ionae, in case it wasn't already obvious.
* Nanaya Kiri in the ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' supplementary material had eyes that could detect the emotions and, apparently, the humanity of people he was near. It's unknown how this really helped him apart from "this guy, Kishima Kouma, is immensely dangerous because his aura is bright red." Blue and silver were similarly inhuman but were noble and possessed by allies.
* The Auspex power in ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' reveals people's auras regardless of intervening barriers, distinguishing normal humans from supernaturals and showing whether they're alert or aggressive.
* Demon Hunters in ''{{VideoGame/Warcraft}}'', including fan favorite Illidan, have their eyeballs burned out of their sockets and replaced with magical demonic fire, usually covered with a blindfold. This lets them see magic and spellwork. In gameplay terms, it allows Demon Hunters in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' to see enemies that are invisible or on the other side of a wall.
* In ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'' Geralt can use his Witcher Sense to locate important clues and objects. New interactive objects are highlighted in a red glow. Objects that have already been interacted with will glow yellow.
* In ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'', [[DullEyesOfUnhappiness Yandere]] [[EmptyEyes Vision]] functions similarly to Eagle Vision. People Yandere-chan has taken pictures of and gotten info from Info-chan about show up in green, Senpai shows up in pink, rivals and those who have witnessed Yandere-chan do nasty things show up in red, and people who have seen Yandere-chan acting suspicious show up in yellow. Objects also show up in Yandere Vision, useful ones being outlined in cyan and parts of corpses being outlined in orange. Yandere-chan herself is outlined in black when she uses this power.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', at the cost of making him nearsighted, Link's senses can be honed so he can see spirits, insects of darkness, and digging spots when in wolf form. The game claims it's just a visual representation of his keen sense of smell while in wolf form, but the [[Manga/TheLegendOfZelda manga adaptation]] refines it to be a more supernatural power specific to the Sacred Beast (hence the third-eye pattern on his facial fur).

** Ren's Semblance gives him the ability to mask people's emotions, fading their Auras to make them look visibly grey. This makes them invisible to the Grimm, which are attracted to negative emotions. In Volume 8, his Semblance evolves to allow him to [[TheEmpath unmask people's emotions]]. His masking ability kicks in first, greying out everything, then unpeeling an emotion which manifests the target's Aura as coloured flower petals that move in specific ways. Each colour and direction of movement combine to create a pattern that refers to a specific emotion. For example, rising red petals represent anger while falling blue petals represent unhappiness.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Side character Fox mastered an advanced Huntsman's technique for seeing auras to compensate for his blindness.
** Ren's Semblance evolves into this in the eigth volume, letting him see peoples' emotions as various colored flower petals around them.

* Some players in a Literature/DreamPark game (Creator/LarryNiven) can request a visible status check hologram to be displayed around each character and NPC: "check auras".

* Bo from ''Series/LostGirl'' found an invisible fae using this. Given that she is a [[HornyDevils Succubus]], its probably Sex Aura Vision.

* The title superpowered psychopath from the ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' mod ''VideoGame/TheHidden'' has an "aura view" vision mode, letting him easily spot other players in the dark or even through obstacles and walls.

** Ash has been shown to still have the power twice or thrice. It's just that he doesn't train them and has no special equipment to channel them (he probably left Aaron's gloves behind after the movie) so they are rather underdeveloped and not really good for anything, except finding runaway Riolus.
*** It did come in handy for connecting to and catching his own newborn Riolu though in the 2019 series.

* ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'': In "[[Recap/RiveraleS6E06ChapterOneHundredAndOneUnbelievable Unbelievable]]", Betty learns she can see the auras of people who are threats, such as criminals and serial killers. The auras appear as a red light around the enemy she sees.

* ''Fanfic/HangingTenSaga': The Kahuna seems to have this ability to read people's auras, the first time this was displayed was when he shook Ben's hand and sensed many of his auras that represented each of his alien forms.