History Main / SuperSenses

* Franchise/{{Batman}} has this in the crossover "Planetary - Batman" but it's not explained what specific supersense he's got.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':

* ''Franchise/XMen'':

** ComicBook/JonathanSamuelKent: Like his dad, Jon is armed with Super-Vision of all kinds, from X-Ray to Telescopic. He also possesses his father's Super-Hearing, which also happened to be Jon's first superpower.

* This is one of the {{Ninja}} skills possessed by John Doe and Dr. Yagyu from ''ComicBook/NthManTheUltimateNinja''.

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': King Snake has hearing so good that his blindness is only an issue ''once'' when Tim modified his staff to whistle from the end if it was swung fast enough at the right angle. Otherwise he's one of the most skilled martial artists in the DCU capable of keeping up with any member of the Batfamily besides [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cass]] in a fight.

** Kara can hear Batman's heartbeats several miles away in ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton''.

** In ''ComicBook/ActionComicsNumber252'', Clark Kent uses his telescopic vision and superhumanly hearing to locate a rocketship falling from the space, several miles away from his position.

* In ''[[VideoGame/PuyoPuyo Puyo Puyo 7]]'', Ringo tells Rulue she can see the Andromeda Galaxy in the sky during the daytime, meaning she has 20/4 vision - the ability to to pick up details from 20 feet away that most would have to be four feet away at most to notice. This might be referencing how ''Puyo Puyo'' as a whole has an ArcNumber of 24.

* Being a parody of Wolverine that he is, SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}} has what has to be the most absurdly powerful sense of smell ''ever'', allowing him to track targets ''across interstellar distances''.

* It's common for people on the autism spectrum to have an increased sensitivity to sensory input, i.e. a low-key version of this trope. It's a brain thing, though, not a case of having better sensory organs: a neurotypical brain ignores or strips out a lot of the sensory data it receives, so you won't be overwhelmed by the vast amount of things your senses are picking up at any given moment. If your brain doesn't filter that data as much as is typical, your senses will be better but you'll be more susceptible to SensoryOverload. There's also related hazards like perceiving totally ordinary sensations as unpleasantly intense (and perhaps intensely unpleasant), or being unable to concentrate on the important stuff when you're receiving both important and unimportant sensory input.\\\
A slightly-autistic artist is known for producing hyper-accurate drawings of cityscapes from a single glance from above specifically because his brain doesn't filter out any visual stimulus and he can hold the complete image in his head as he draws.

* OlderThanRadio, from Creator/EdgarAllenPoe:

* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': Momiji has the ability to see great distances. Miko has all around excellent hearing, being able to hear soft sounds, sounds from far away, and comprehending large numbers of different things at once. Miko also has a super-inference power, so she can figure out all sorts of things about a person by talking to them for a short time.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Professor Farnsworth creates a Smelloscope that can sniff out far away galaxies.

* ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}'': Deconstructed. The Plutonian's hearing is so great he can hear almost everything at once. This means he can hear the cries of people he is unable to help and feels that he must be active in saving people twenty-four hours a day. It also lets him hear every criticism and snide comment, slowly driving him insane. It gets so bad he flies to the moon for ten minutes just to get away from it all. A flashback also shows that, unlike Superman and his ilk, [[RealityEnsues he can't hear things from far away in real time.]] Thus, when he hears his foster mother about to commit suicide from a few miles away, even though he's able to cross the distance in a heartbeat, he was already too late to stop her.

* In ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002'' the Speleans are a subterranean race that, like the bats they [[BatMen resemble]], have far better ears than humans do.

** Erina Nakiri has the "God Tongue", an ability which allows her to perfectly analyze--and criticize--food. For an aspiring chef at a prestigious cooking academy, it's a very powerful gift to have.

** Yuya Fungami from Part 4 has a strong sense of smell which he acquired from stealing nutrients from other people. He could tell if a peach has gone bad from across the room, track down a person with scent and even determine someone emotional state by the smell of their adrenaline.
** Pillar Men from part 2, came from the [[HumanoidAbomination race of ancient]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent super-vampires]], so they naturally have much more acute senses, than humans. Santana was able to see and hear through soundproofed one-way glass, Wamuu could determine location of the person by sensing air currents caused said person's breath and Kars was able to detect body heat through walls accurately enough to determine the exact position and height of everyone inside a room from the outside. After [[spoiler: evolving into UltimateLifeForm, Kars]] takes it step further - [[spoiler: in this form his eyes work as good as astronomical telescope, his ears can hear sounds on every frequency, and he grows antennas, that can sense heat and air movements.]]

** Zabuza and Dosu both have super-sensitive hearing, to the point the former could fight by sound alone and the latter's ears were resilient enough to withstand point-blank [[SonicStunner Melody Arm]] blasts, yet were sensitive enough to identify exactly what someone was writing ''just by listening to the scratches their pencils made.''\

** Toriko has enhanced sense of smell. It's so good, that he can track down any creature that been in the area years before, even if area itself is decimated. At his limit Toriko can smell things from all over the world, but at that level of sensitivity he can't sleep, unless he plugs his nose.
** Coco has enhanced eyesight. He can see non-visible spectra of light, which allows him to [[FortuneTeller tell the future of people]], by reading their electromagnetic auras.
** Sunny has enhanced sense of touch, which is used through his feelers - tentacles, that are several hundred meters long and so thin, that they are invisible to the naked eye.
** Zebra has enhanced hearing - Toriko claims, that Zebra can hear a coin drop from tens of kilometers away. He also can use his super-hearing for echolocation, by combining it with his [[MakeMeWannaShout incredibly powerful voice.]]
*** Every single character could be debated as having super taste, since it's set in a world all about food. Most notably Komatsu, who's able to pick out single ingredients in a dish based on taste alone, and to a lesser degree Toriko since smell and taste are dependant on each other but it's not as refined as Komatsu's.

* ''Webcomic/{{Castoff}}'': Vector apparently has [[https://castoff-comic.com/comic/chapter-3-page-20/ super sight]]. Where Arianna can barely see a light in the distance he can see an inn and even read the sign at the front.

* Legolas' feats of eyesight in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings: The Two Towers'' novel include counting both the fast-moving Riders of Rohan and their riderless horses and observing that their leader is very tall while said Riders are still ''a dozen miles away''.

* In ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', all Asgardians have these to one degree or another.

* In ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'', the entire theme behind the Super Borys' powers is that they represent one of the five human senses and have powers to match them. Jetybory has super hearing, Lunabory has super sight, Cozybory has super touch, Totobory has super taste, and Pondgybory has super smell.

* In ''Animation/NoonboryAbdTheSuper7'', the entire theme behind the Super Borys' powers is that they represent one of the five human senses and have powers to match them. Jetybory has super hearing, Lunabory has super sight, Cozybory has super touch, Totobory has super taste, and Pondgybory has super smell.

* The Seeing Being in ''ComicBook/Rocket2017'' is an alien Daredevil parody. A tragic accident meant he lost the echolocation ability all his race have, but in exchange he acquired a mysterious ability to detect and interpret ''light waves''. Sometimes super-senses are in the eye of the beholder (so to speak).

* ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}'': Deconstructed. The Plutonian's hearing is so great he can hear almost everything at once. This means he can hear the cries of people he is unable to help and feels that he must be active in saving people twenty-four hours a day. It also lets him hear every criticism and snide comment, slowly driving him insane. It gets so bad he flies to the moon for ten minutes just to get away from it all. A flashback where it's shown that, unlike Superman and his ilk, [[RealityEnsues he can't hear things from far away in real time.]] Thus, when he hears his foster mother about to commit suicide from a few miles away, even though he's able to cross the distance in a heartbeat, he was already too late to stop her.

* The BioAugmentation process for ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' SpaceMarines includes a trio of organs that allow perfect vision in near darkness, enhanced hearing with the conscious ability to filter sound, and an enhanced sense of taste which allows them to track targets or distinguish specific chemical compositions.

* ''Manga/DragonBall''

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''
** Asuna possesses both super sight and super hearing. To give some examples, she was the only one to see the eraser momentarily floating above Negi's head despite the entire class looking at Negi at the time in the first chapter, and she managed to clearly hear the conversation Eva and Setsuna were having in the ring even though she was in the sidelines of a noisy arena during the Mahora Festival's TournamentArc. Just some of the many hints on Asuna's MysteriousWaif nature. Setsuna's {{Ki|Manipulation}} allows her to at least triple her senses.
** Rakan and Chamo have both demonstrated a remarkable sense of smell, when they were able to locate an opponent who was more than 30 kilometers away by following the scent of her ''[[PantyThief panties.]]''
** Also, by reading the flow and charge of the air around him, Rakan was able to anticipate and counter the super speed that Negi got from his Raisoku Shundou technique (which basically made Negi a living lightning bolt).

** Zabuza and Dosu both have super-sensitive hearing, to the point the former could fight by sound alone and the latter's ears were resilient enough to withstand point-blank [[SonicStunner Melody Arm]] blasts, yet were sensitive enough to identify exactly what someone was writing ''just by listening to the scratches their pencils made.''
* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures''

* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin''

* The Seeing Being in ''Comicbook/Rocket2017'' is an alien Daredevil parody. A tragic accident meant he lost the echolocation ability all his race have, but in exchange he acquired a mysterious ability to detect and interpret ''light waves''. Sometimes super-senses are in the eye of the beholder (so to speak).

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'': Momiji has the ability to see great distances. Miko has all around excellent hearing, being able to hear soft sounds, sounds from far away, and comprehending large numbers of different things at once. Miko also has a super-inference power, so she can figure out all sorts of things about a person by talking to them for a short time.

* The monsters of ''Videogame/{{Evolve}}'' have an excellent sense of smell, allowing them to detect every animal, human, robot, and piece of equipment within 175 meters, even through walls and in a storm.

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** "Legs" has a superb sense of taste, assisted by her {{Overly Long|Tongue}} MultipurposeTongue

* In ''WebComic/NoRestForTheWicked,'' both Red (a somewhat AxCrazy version of Little Red Riding Hood) but especially November (based on "The Princess and the Pea") have this; November is so sensitive that she can even smell if you're royal or not (including discerning if it's from birth of a RagsToRiches thing).

* Fiona Fennec of ''WebComic/KevinAndKell'' has amazing hearing, even considering her naturally large ears, she's considered to have good hearing. For example, she can hear where gophers dig to try to get the team's crops, where the ground starts to thaw, and where N.O.P.E. was trying to break into Lindesfarne's house. On the downside, it also means she knows exactly ''when'' mating season for the rabbits is.

* In ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'', "The Hidden Floor", the young version of [[GodEmperor Jahad]] can hear there isn't anyone in a building he sees in the distance across a chasm, and sense that people are trying to tunnel past him under the ground.

*** Dialled UpToEleven in ''Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan'' where Piccolo can hear things from all over the universe, including distant galaxies and the afterlife.

* Erina Nakiri from ''Manga/FoodWars'' has the "God Tongue", an ability which allows her to perfectly analyze--and criticize--food. For an aspiring chef at a prestigious cooking academy, it's a very powerful gift to have.

* Gavrill of ''Manga/FrankenFran'' has a sense of smell sharp enough to detect individual molecules. [[HumansAreSmelly Due to the pungent odors the human body can produce, she generally considers dealing with other people unpleasant.]]

* Police Detective (and later US Food and Drug Administration Agent) Tony Chu of ''ComicBook/{{Chew}}'' is a cibopath -- he receives psychic impressions from the food he eats (including people, if he takes a bite out of them) and uses his talents to solve crime. His fellow FDA Agent Mason Savoy is also a cibopath.

* Deconstructed in ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}''. The Plutonian's hearing is so great he can hear almost everything at once. This means he can hear the cries of people he is unable to help and feels that he must be active in saving people twenty-four hours a day. It also lets him hear every criticism and snide comment, slowly driving him insane. It gets so bad he flies to the moon for ten minutes just to get away from it all.
** Further deconstructed in a flashback where it's shown that, unlike Superman and his ilk, [[RealityEnsues he can't hear things from far away in real time.]] Thus, when he hears his foster mother about to commit suicide from a few miles away, even though he's able to cross the distance in a heartbeat, he was already too late to stop her.
* Diviner from ''Comicbook/JusticeMachine''.

** Wolfsbane in ''ComicBook/XMen'' has enhanced senses of smell and hearing when she's in human form. She tells Rictor that she has her wolf senses in her human form but changes the subject before explaining further. She receives a power boost in ''ComicBook/XForce'' (v3) because of her pregnancy with the child of the Asgardian wolf prince Hrimhari.

* David from ''Webcomic/{{Inhibit}}'' is Hypersensory, meaning he has heightened senses.

* ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'': Max. He can hear a bowtie snap from several meters away. Especially notable as his ears are comically small for his size.

* [[{{Adorkable}} Mai Natsume]] from ''VideoGame/{{Blazblue}}'' has a bizarre super taste. She can detect even the most subtle of flavours, and can even somehow use it to see the thoughts and memories of the chef. She can also use her taste to determine the properties of supernatural objects. The downside is that normal food makes her sick, though on the other hand it lets her stomach [[LethalChef Noel's atrocious cooking]], as she can taste nothing but Noel's kindness and innocence.

** [[SpaceElves The Aeldari]] have senses [[OurElvesAreBetter far superior to those of a human]]. Their extremely heightened senses mean they need to exercise constant restraint or they risk becoming TheHedonist.

->'''Homer''': Wait, I can smell cake... cake that says "Farewell... and...'' *gasps* ''BEST WISHES!"\\