History Main / SuperSenses

* In both the movies and in the novels of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', Elves have spectacular vision: at one point, Aragorn asks Legolas to look for what a band of Uruk-Hai is doing, and while said Uruks are well out of eyeshot for Aragorn (and the viewer), Legolas apparently has no problem seeing them and [[StupidStatementDanceMix noticing where they go]].

* ''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.

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'', it is implied that a secondary function of the Bunny Hood is super hearing. Wearing it during the Postman's 10-second-counting challenge makes the on-screen timer visible and its ticking audible for the entire duration of the challenge, because Link can hear the Postman's stopwatch perfectly.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'': As a wolf, Link gains heightened senses that allow him to follow scent trails, find objects underground, and see in the dark. They also enable him to see the physical forms of spirits and ghosts.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' reveals that the Protheans had senses so incredibly developed and acute that they bordered on PsychicPowers, allowing them to literally read information encoded on a genetic level. [[spoiler:Javik, the sole surviving Prothean, uses this ability to instantly absorb all known galactic languages from Shepherd's TranslatorMicrobes, as well as all of Shepherd's knowledge of the current galactic situation, with a single touch.]]
* ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIHeirTodayGoneTomorrow'' has the Sense Gnomes, a set of five guards on the Isle of Wonder that each have a single hyper-evolved sense (one each of sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing) that they use to ferret out intruders.

* 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.
* The titular Baldi from ''VideoGame/BaldisBasicsInEducationAndLearning'' has incredible hearing abilities. He can hear, from across the entire school, sounds like an alarm clock, a door being opened, and a mathematical question being answered incorrectly; he can also discern ''who'' caused which noise, which allows him to track you specifically while ignoring everyone else. However, loud and constant noises like the aforementioned alarm clock hinder his ability, forcing him to deal with the noise before resuming the chase.
* Geralt of Rivia from ''Franchise/TheWitcher'' possesses these courtesy of the mutation required to become a Witcher. It's best showcased in ''VideoGame/TheWitcher2AssassinsOfKings'', where he intimidates [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters the Scoi'atel]] leader by sharing his knowledge of the four scouts he had hiding in the trees nearby, and diagnoses one as either a Fisstech addict or just suffering a cold, as he can hear the Elf wheezing.

* {{Deconstructed|Trope}} 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. A flashback also shows that, unlike Superman and his ilk, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome 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.

* ''Literature/TheEarTheEyeAndTheArm'' delves into the severe downside of having Super Senses. The Eye has to wear special glasses to tone down the light level whenever he leaves home; the Ear can easily be overloaded through abundance of noise. The Arm has the ability to sense emotions -- no, not a Super Sense per se, but play in much the same manner - and it frequently overwhelms him (so many all at once!), occasionally affecting his mood directly. When the Arm bonds with a baby, he goes to sleep when she does, and at one point they start echoing fear back and forth between them, each one scaring the other in a magnifying cascade of horror.

* In one episode of the '90s ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperboy'' series, Lex Luthor attacked Superboy with a noise-device that inflicted pain thanks to the target's super-hearing ability.

-->'''Pierce''': You see Jeff, there are certain things man was not meant to hear. We were designed, by whatever entity you choose, to hear what's in this range and really this range alone, because you know who's talking to us in this range? The people we love.\\
''[Pierce gets up and leaves.]''\\
'''Jeff''': ''[to himself]'' He must have heard us call him Inspector Gadget.
* Time Lords in ''Series/DoctorWho'' have highly advanced senses, including a strong sense of smell, so strong they can smell when another Time Lord is on the same planet. They also have a magical "Time Lord sense" that allows then to sense changes in the timeline and determine which points are fixed and which are in flux. The Tenth Doctor also appears to have a ridiculously good sense of taste, able to identify some material compositions by tasting them. In "[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion The Christmas Invasion]]", he identifies not just human blood, but what blood type it is.
** Which FridgeLogic suggests is a bit worrying; it's not enough to have super-taste, you also need to be ''familiar'' with the taste of different types of human blood...
** He could also identify mistletoe oil by licking the wall. And he stuck two fingers in a jar of jam and licked them in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E11FearHer Fear Her"]]. And he licked ''sand'' in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E15PlanetOfTheDead "Planet of the Dead"]]. All of which leads fans to believe that he has an, ahem, oral fixation.
** The Eleventh Doctor has this trait as well. When companion Amy Pond asks him about it after eating some grass, ("Have you always been this disgusting?") he says, "No, that's recent." It appears he first acquired that ability in his tenth incarnation.
** Eleven was actually able to ''tell how much time had passed'' just by ''licking the wood off of Amy's shed''.

** Nestine duplicates apparently have superior hearing. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]], when the Doctor locates his exploding TARDIS and channels the sound through a satellite dish, Rory (then a Nestine, it's complicated) can hear River Song's voice inside the TARDIS.
--->'''Amy''': I don't hear anything.\\
'''Rory''': ''(Points to one of his ears)'' Trust the plastic.

-->'''Father Jack''': ''(being startled awake by the sound of Father Ted failing to stealth-pack a wine bottle)'' [[CatchPhrase DRINK!!]]\\
'''Father Ted''': It's not drink, Father. It's just fizzy water.\\
'''Father Jack''': Jacob's Creek chardonnay, 1991!
* ''Series/FutureCop'': Haven can eavesdrop on phone conversations and detect people's heart rates without touching them. During a training simulation in the pilot, he sees a black man holding a gun and an elderly white woman screaming for help, and arrests the woman because his sensors detect gunshot residue on her hands, indicating that she has fired recently.
* On ''Series/{{Haven}}'', Nathan has an acute sense of smell, likely heightened because his [[HereditaryCurse Trouble]] means he can't [[FeelNoPain feel anything]]. In the first season, he has a collection of essential oils he keeps in his office and is able to identify a flowers in a boquiet Audrey brings in with his eyes closed.
* Dale from ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' has super-hearing, which she considers a gift but still has to listen to music at ridiculous levels to drown out the noise. When Sylar kills her and takes her power, he is at first having trouble with the overly-loud noises.
* ''Series/{{House}}''. The hostage taker in the 5th season episode "Last Resort" suffers from hyperacusis. When talking on the phone he suddenly hangs up, runs across the room, and has someone open the blinds revealing a SWAT team sneaking outside the window. Even the hostages standing right next to that window didn't hear them approaching.

* ''Series/Jake20'' has all of his body functions enhanced by the {{Nanomachines}} that inhabit his body, including his senses.

* ''Series/KyleXY'' can "concentrate" on one of his sense to supercharge it, being able to see in almost complete darkness or hear things hundreds of feet away through walls and the like. The downside is that he loses a proportionate amount of input from his other senses, e.g. if he is concentrating on his sight, he can't hear things as well.

* Series/{{Monk}} can decipher what someone is writing on his back, even hours after it has happened. It's a gift... and a curse.
* In ''Series/{{Moonlight}}'':

* Gus from ''Series/{{Psych}}'' dubbed his nose the Super Sniffer and it has proven useful during investigations.

* The show called ''Series/TheSentinel'' has this as a premise.

* In ''Franchise/StarTrek'', Vulcan hearing is much more sensitive than human. In the [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries original series]] episode [[Recap/StarTrekS3E20TheWayToEden "The Way to Eden"]], the antagonists use sound to knock out the crew of the ''Enterprise'' and Spock is shown covering his ears in pain several seconds before anyone else even notices the noise.
** Females also have a heightened sense of smell. Unfortunately, this leads to them typically [[HumansAreSmelly finding the scent of humans to be rather vile]].
** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' also established that Ferengi, with their enormous ears, have a very acute sense of hearing. Quark in particular has been known to hear the imperceptible humming of a hidden bomb, and Nog used it to crack safes.

* The show ''Series/TeenWolf'' has this. Being a werewolf grants one such powers.
** Unfortunately for Derek, when he was feeling the incapacitating effects of the wolfsbane bullet, he received a painful sensory overload from the overwhelming noise and activity happening in the school. Especially from the school bell that happened to be placed right above him.
* Clement [=McDonald=] in ''Series/{{Torchwood}}: Children of Earth'' has a superhuman sense of smell which he can use to determine everything from the presence of aliens to a person's sexuality.

* ''Pinball Wizard'' by''Music/TheWho'' can play pinball so well because he us deaf, dumb, and blind, and thus can concentrate on feeling the vibrations of the ball without any distractions.[[/folder]]

* In ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' the super sensory Advantages for vision alone include: Telescopic Vision, Microscopic Vison, Infravision, Ultravision, Hyperspectral Vision, Acute Vision, Dark Vision, See Invisible, Night Vision and Penetrating Vision.

*** Also the Blind Fighting Skill
* In [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons D&D]] 3.5 nearly every species except humans had some sort of enhanced vision powers.
** In 4th edition, About half or so of the basic races have low-light vision.
*** Some monsters (and the drow) can see ''without light'' using Darkvision. Absolutely necessary for the drow since they live in the Underdark, a place with almost no natural light. In 3.5 at least they suffer in-game penalties to their abilities if they go out in the daytime since they aren't used to the light of day.
** 3.5 also had a number of feat-chains and classes that ''granted'' enhanced vision powers if you didn't already have them.

* ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' has sensory enhancement augmentations:
** Enhanced Vision: the character gains the ability to see a significant portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, letting them see "a total of several dozen colors, instead of the seven ordinary human eyes can perceive". Additionally, they have telescopic capabilities equivalent to binoculars.
** Enhanced Hearing: doubles the character's audible frequency range, as well as drastically increasing their auditory sensitivity. The given example is that they can "easily overhear even a softly spoken conversation at another table in a small restaurant".
** Enhanced Smell: a sense of smell "equal to that of a bloodhound", giving them the ability to identify people and objects by smell, track recent trails, and ascertain the health and emotional state of nearby people.
** Additionally, there are a few augmentations that provide the character with whole new senses: [[BlindfoldedVision echolocation]], direction sense, electrical sense, radiation sense, chemical sniffers, nanoscopic vision, lidar, and radar (although these last four are only available to synthmorphs).
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** The BioAugmentation process used to create [[SuperSoldier Astartes]] includes a trio of organs that bestow perfect vision in near darkness (the Occulobe), enhanced hearing with the conscious ability to filter sound (the Lyman's Ear), and an enhanced sense of taste which allows them to track targets or distinguish specific chemical compositions (the Neuroglottis).
** In order to assist them in their mission to refine and develop the infectious blessings of the Plague God Nurgle, the Biologus Putrifiers have a unique mutation to their occulobes. These lidless, milky-white eyes are capable of seeing through an opponent's armour and flesh, allowing the Putrifier to perceive the spread and development of disease their latest concoction in minute detail.
** [[SpaceElves The Aeldari]] have senses [[SuperiorSpecies far superior to those of a human]]. Their extremely heightened senses mean they need to exercise constant restraint or they risk becoming TheHedonist.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' allows most of the characters who can use Essence to get some sort of super-sense. This ranges from the ability to perceive Essence flows to being able to recognizing the presence of a tasteless, odorless poison in wine by the dilution of the wine's own taste to seeing through all deceptions and attempts to conceal the truth.
* Several Alertness and Investigation stunts in ''TabletopGame/SpiritOfTheCentury'' deal with pulp-level enhanced human senses. A straightforward one is Focused Sense, which allows a character to concentrate on a single pre-set sense (the stunt can be taken multiple times to cover more) to the exclusion of everything else, granting a bonus to appropriate Investigation rolls at the cost of a like penalty to rolls for anything else while the focus is maintained; Impossible Detail builds on that by letting a character potentially detect things that nobody else even could by allowing them to ignore any increased difficulties for a given important detail's size or subtlety.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}} 2.0.2.0.'' has this as options that can be added to [[ArtificialLimbs cybernetic eyes or inner ears]]. For the former you've for example low-light vision or termographic one, and for the latter you've --as examples -- a voice analyzer or a broad-band radio scanner.
* ''TabletopGame/AnimaBeyondFantasy'' has this as advantages. For example, for vision you've low-light vision or supernatural vision (being able to see spirits and other supernatural stuff otherwise invisible), as cats in the setting have.

* ''Webcomic/{{Castoff}}'': Vector apparently has [[https://castoff-comic.com/comic/125 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.

* Shelly of ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'' now seems to have super eyesight [[spoiler:due to being a sphinx]].

* ComicBook/{{Batman}} has this in the crossover "Planetary - Batman" but it's not explained what specific supersense he's got.
-->"I know you're behind me. From this position there are nine ways to take you down; six of them kill you outright. All of them lead to your friend here being accidentally rendered unable to walk for the rest of his life. Think carefully."

* The titular character in Paul Chadwick's ''ComicBook/{{Concrete}}'' had an interesting combination of this ''and'' SenseLossSadness. Concrete is a man whose brain, for reasons unknown, was transplanted by aliens into an eight-foot tall, sexless body made out of a substance similar to, well, concrete. Because of this, he has no sense of taste or smell at all, and his sense of touch is extremely limited. (He can feel being shot by an AK-47, but that's about it.) His hearing seems to be unchanged. His one consolation: his eyesight is far better than any human being. He can read newsprint from fifty feet away, or count the feathers of an eagle flying overhead. This one super-sense doesn't make up for the loss or near-loss of three others (or the loss of his genitals), but it's something.

* ComicBook/TheFalcon's mask gives him telescopic, night, and infrared vision.
* ''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, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome 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.
* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk:'' Hulk has incredibly good hearing. This comes with the drawback that sounds that wouldn't bother humans are debilitating to him. Of course, pain just makes Hulk angry, and the angrier Hulk gets...
* Diviner from ''ComicBook/JusticeMachine''.
* ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'': It doesn't come up often but the mostly blind hero Dr. Mid-Nite's other senses are slightly enhanced. He usually has no need to rely on this given the goggles he wears allow him to "see" even in light bright enough to cancel out his altered vision (generally depicted as infrared), but when he's stripped of his goggles like in ''ComicBook/JSAClassified: Nightfall'' and stuck under blinding hot lights his sense of smell, hearing and taste make up for his loss of "sight" and allow him to be a formidable opponet anyway.
* Being a parody of Wolverine that he is, ComicBook/{{Lobo}} has what has to be the most absurdly powerful sense of smell ''ever'', allowing him to track targets ''across interstellar distances''.

-->'''Dr. Yagyu''': "You're getting mighty sloppy, boy! I could hear you breathing and walking through a solid steel door! I taught you better than that!"

** Superman is probably the best example since DependingOnTheWriter, he has superhearing that allows him to [[ComicBook/KingdomCome hear clouds scraping together or a cell splitting]], or hear across a vacuum, telescopic vision, microscopic vision that allows him to see electrons, can see the entire electromagnetic spectrum (including infrared, X-Ray, etc.), and more.

** ComicBook/KryptoTheSuperdog has all of Superman's powers, adjusted accordingly for his being a dog. This means, for the record, that his Super Senses are among the most powerful in the DC Universe. His senses of [[TheNoseKnows smell]] and [[SuperHearing hearing]] are far superior to Superman's, but his vision is inferior.
** [[Characters/SupermanJonathanSamuelKent Jonathan Samuel Kent]]: 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.

--->'''Kara''': Did you hear that? People screaming... and some sort of roaring...\\
'''Superboy''': I don't — Are you hearing...?\\
'''Linda''': I got nothin'.\\
'''Kara''': And now I can see it, right in Metropolis, with my telescopic vision!\\
'''Superboy''': Her what? Is there any power she doesn't have?
** In the first issue of ''ComicBook/SupergirlRebirth'', Supergirl is flying over the surface of the Sun and hears her foster mother's voice -who is standing on Earth- in real time. Later in that issue she uses her microscopic vision to read someone else's genetic makeup.
** In ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl1972 her first book]]'''s first scene, Kara uses her X-Ray Vision combined with her telescopic vision to read a letter while she's floating several hundred of meters over her apartment. And later she uses her microscopic vision to analyze a statue belonging to her roommate and determine that it was made from alien substances.

--->'''Supergirl''': Waitaminnit! That heartbeat... I've heard it before! With hearing as sensitive as mine, they're as individual as fingerprints!

** In ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', Kara reveals she installed mass-loaded vinyl throughout the walls of her room because her super-hearing kept her awake at night. She cannot hear what is happening while Bizarrogirl tears up the city, but she can ''feel'' explosions nearby.

** In ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'', Lex Luthor got empowered with abilities like Superman's for a day. While he at first reveled in the power and used it to terrorize Metropolis, at some point, the Super Senses began to kick in, and Luthor suddenly gained a newfound perspective and started to Go Sane From The Revelation. For the first time, he understood the wonder of the world that never mattered to him and the enormous weight that was on Superman's shoulders every day of his life.

** Actually, we should just include all the mutants in X-Men who have feral-type powers (Wolverine, Sabretooth) or transform into animals (Feral, Catseye). Also Warpath, who can hear pins drop.
** 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'' (Volume 3) because of her pregnancy with the child of the Asgardian wolf prince Hrimhari.

* In ''FanFic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace'', [[spoiler:Bass]] has highly advanced senses that can scan through walls and detect human heartbeats.

* The Alteriens of the sci-fi series, ''Literature/{{Alterien}}'', have super sharp senses. Their senses aren't extremely greater than a normal human's, but they can hyper-focus on the smallest sights, sounds or smells from far away.

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/TheSecretSense": Martians in this story have several senses that humans don't (and humans have better senses than martians). The most significant of their senses is that of detecting magnetic fields. They are able to [[SuperEmpowering grant this sense to humans]], but only [[HourOfPower temporarily]].
* Buzzer from ''Literature/SuperMinion'' has such good hearing that he can count heartbeats in an adjacent building, as well as listen in on every conversation going on inside.

* In ''Literature/ABoyAndHisDog'' the titular Dog is a mutant who claims to have superior smelling ability even compared to other mutant Dogs.
* Super senses are Bedlam's secondary ability in ''Literature/DevilsCape'', and function even when he is in his normal [[{{Shapeshifting}} human form.]]

** Angua's sense of smell. One character once described her abilities as being able to smell the result of a coin toss. While her sense of smell isn't quite ''that'' good while human-shaped (she's a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]]), it is a lot better than most peoples (perhaps due to to bleed-through from her wolf form), and it stays good for a few minutes after turning.
** Also in Discworld are the Listening Monks, who are trying to hear the echo of the universe's creation. They will not even accept a monk for ''training'' unless he can hear the result of a coin toss. When he's done, he's expected to hear what color the coin is. [[spoiler:As an aside, they succeed. The sound is: "[[ThePowerOfRock One. Two. One, two, three, four]]-"]]

* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'': upon entering {{Heaven}}, human sight becomes powerful enough to be focused directly upon the Sun without fear of blindness. Dante realizes this almost immediately and reasons that these new powers are granted because humanity was made to live in Heaven, physically and spiritually.
* Nancy Farmer's ''Literature/TheEarTheEyeAndTheArm'' delves into the severe down side of having Super Senses. The Eye has to wear special glasses to tone down the light level whenever he leaves home; the Ear can easily be overloaded through abundance of noise. The Arm has the ability to sense emotions - no, not a Super Sense per se, but play in much the same manner - and it frequently overwhelms him (so many all at once!), occasionally affecting his mood directly. When the Arm bonds with a baby, he goes to sleep when she does, and at one point they start echoing fear back and forth between them, each one scaring the other in a magnifying cascade of horror.

** "Literature/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher". Roderick Usher suffers from bouts of hyperacute senses, which are portrayed as entirely a burden, never an advantage.

'''Mason:''' Uh...''everything'', Gardener?\\

* With a proper diet, the vampires of ''Literature/TheMadnessSeason'' have heightened senses of smell and hearing. Even when weaned off of blood, they are still able to see into the infra red spectrum.
* In Brandon Sanderson's Franchise/{{Mistborn}}, Allomancers can achieve this through burning tin. [[spoiler: Spook ends up burning so much tin for so long that his senses become stretched to ridiculous levels, allowing him to do such things as avoid swords because he can "feel the vibrations in the air".]] Sanderson also does a good job of portraying the drawbacks of having Super Senses, with things such as bright lights and loud noises momentarily disabling the characters multiple times throughout the series.

* Mike, the sentient computer from ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress'' can make a reasonable judgment of a person's health, just from the sound picked up by a common telephone receiver.

* In ''Literature/ThePerilsOfEnhancegirl'' the eponymous heroine possesses all of the classical five, with the exception of hearing. She most frequently uses these powers in combat, allowing her to sense well in advance what her opponents are about to do, and respond accordingly.

* In ''Literature/ShadowOfTheConqueror,'' any of the physical senses can be enhanced by Lifebinding. Daylen largely uses it for sight and [[SuperHearing hearing]], though [[TheNoseKnows scent]] is also used prominently by the book's SympatheticInspectorAntagonist to track him down.

* In ''Literature/TalesOfMU'', Mack learns that she can use her innate magical ability to boost her senses.
* Literature/{{Tarzan}} can track prey by smell. Even though that's not really possible.
* In the Literature/{{Uglies}} trilogy, Specials can apparently smell a burnt out campfire from ten kilometers away, see in the dark and hear better than bats. Shay in particular can always smell what someone is feeling. Specials got super senses as a result of the operation that gave them super strength and super speed (and scary faces).

* In PN Elrod's ''Literature/TheVampireFiles'' series, the vampire Jack Fleming has unusually acute senses. The series also mentions the disadvantages of this, as Jack finds violin music painful even if it's well-played.
* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', Dovewing's special power is that she has super senses - in particular, strong hearing - that allows her to detect what cats are doing even all the way across the lake. She is surprised to learn that not everyone is like that.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}} 2.0.2.0.'' has this as options that can be added to [[ArtificialLimbs cybernetic eyes or inner ears]]. For the former you've for example low-light vision or termographic one, and for the latter you've -as examples- a voice analyzer or a broad-band radio scanner.

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* From ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'':
** The titular Schlock is a Carboscilicate Amorph, who has been described as having "Molecular recognition better than a whole team of bloodhounds", allowing him to easily identify people by smell or taste. Arguably, he also classifies as having superior eyesight, not because his eyes are particularly good, but because of how many he can use at once, and the fact that he can move them around at will - thus allowing him to determine the altitude, speed, and climb-rate of an aircraft through triangulation. Finally, his sense of hearing is about as powerful, to the point he can eavesdrop through entire ships and can listen to an implanted microphone in another person's ear at conversational distance, ''better'' than the person with the actual microphone implanted. As Doctor Bunnigus explained, "assume he can always hear what you're saying".
** "Legs" has a superb sense of taste, assisted by her {{Overly Long|Tongue}} MultipurposeTongue.
** "Ebby" has a very large single eye that has amazingly high resolution, allowing him to see the recording implant in an human iris and that overcomes the 3D vision of a cycloptic race by focusing very quickly and repeatedly, giving him better rangefinding than the average human.
* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' Snookums the Tentacle Bunny is a {{Kaiju}} who got [[IncredibleShrinkingMan shrunk]] to the size of a basketball. Snookums still has all the nerve endings of a huge creature, now compressed down to a small space, granting him Super Senses. This makes him an excellent tracker.

* Terezi from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' is blind, but makes up for it with what is essentially some form of synesthesia which leans into this - she can approximate sight by smelling colors and occasionally tasting them as well for greater clarity. She isn't really treated as having a superhuman ability to smell ''normal'' smells, but her ability to smell and taste colors is good enough that she can read text by sniffing and licking her monitor. (She's [[RubberForeheadAliens an]] [[AllTrollsAreDifferent alien]], but her species' senses are largely the same as humans'.)
* Michelle of ''Webcomic/SkinDeep'' can [[http://www.skindeepcomic.com/archive/issue-four-page-8/ read a magazine]] from high on a cliff due to her being a sphinx (part lion and part eagle). Merial, on the other hand, can see well underwater but needs glasses on land.
* Shelly of ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'' now seems to have super eyesight [[spoiler:due to being a sphinx]]
* Vampires in ''Webcomic/TheKingfisher'' seem to have all senses heightened. Occasionally a human will be differentiated in the comic with a fiery aura, which represents a vampire observing their body heat.
* Apparently comes with being an avatar of the troll god Tectonicus in ''Webcomic/GuildedAge''.

* Florence Ambrose of ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', being a genetically engineered anthropomorphic red wolf, has heightened smell and hearing compared to a human, to the point of analysing a person's family history and whether their (not present) children had oatmeal that morning. The hearing was demonstrated by an anecdote of her time as an engineer: turns out humans are really good at designing industrial machinery that's quiet in their audible range, with the result that she spent a long (and retroactively embarrassing) time shouting over a background noise no-one else could hear.
* 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).
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', as a side effect of her [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]] ability Grace has a remote tactile sense. It allows her to precisely sense the shape, location, and size of things in her vicinity as long as she is in a form that includes her antennae. It is accurate enough to sense [[http://egscomics.com/comic/tsos-16 where and how a twenty-sided die has rolled]] a few meters away from her without looking at it. It can also be used to enhance the fidelity of her clone form shapeshifting by [[http://egscomics.com/comic/tsos-17 sensing the exact shape of her target]]. A downside to this sense is that she is prone to SensoryOverload in crowds and she [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2012-10-17 can't turn it off]] without morphing away the antennae.
* 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.
* ''Webcomic/{{Castoff}}'': Vector apparently has [[https://castoff-comic.com/comic/125 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.
* 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.

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

* There are lots of mutants with one or more enhanced senses in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse''. Aquerna has the spirit of the squirrel, so she has enhanced sight and smell (as well as being regarded as one of the school losers). Chaka has figured out how to use her KiManipulation abilities to simulate seeing in slow motion. Jinn Sinclair can ''see'' emotions and magic and superpowers. And so on.

* Sentry (His name is ''not'' Kid Sentinel. He's not a sidekick, he's an ''assistant'', thank you very much), played by Daniel in Podcast/{{Fandible}}'s [[http://paradigmconcepts.com/rotted-capes/ Rotted Capes]] game. His superpowers grant him enhanced senses, including the eyesight of an eagle, and the taste of an Italian. Often wears a blindfold, so he doesn't have to bear witness to the ZombieApocalypse around him.

** ComicBook/KryptoTheSuperdog has all of Superman's powers, adjusted accordingly for his being a dog. This means, for the record, that his Super Senses are among the most powerful in the DC Universe. His senses of [[TheNoseNose smell]] and [[SuperHearing hearing]] are far superior to Superman's, but his vision is inferior.

** ComicBook/KryptoTheSuperdog has all of Superman's powers, adjusted accordingly for his being a dog. This means, for the record, that his Super Senses are among the most powerful in the DC Universe.

** "Farhearing" is also possible with magic, enchaning regular hearing.

In most cases, they completely ignore the drawbacks of super senses. The characters are rarely [[SensoryOverload overloaded by too much sensory information]] (a crowd of people all talking at once when you have super hearing is really overwhelming) or by experiencing some unpleasant stimuli much more intensely (e.g., if you have super smell, how do you react to a skunk?). And when it comes to ''pain''... yikes! This may be explained by RequiredSecondaryPowers of sensory fine-tuning, where (for example) a super-hearer can either consciously or reflexively tune out certain amplitudes or frequencies of noise -- but don't expect this to be treated as anything more than a HandWave.

See also AnimalEyes, BeingWatched, SpiderSense, VeinOVision, XRayVision, BlindfoldedVision, TheNoseKnows, FluorescentFootprints, BizarreAlienSenses and MysteriousAnimalSenses. This trope is key to [[MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat a certain gag]]. Beware of SensoryOverload. If the super sense is lost, expect the character to feel SenseLossSadness.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Vampires gain heightened sight, smell, and are even capable of hearing people's heartbeats. It turns out vampires' telepathy also works on this principle, by ''literally'' hearing thoughts (Lestat says that, as with hearing heartbeats, they're people's brains at work). However, a vampire's sense of taste is severely diminished. Louis de Pointe du Lac imparts to Daniel Molloy that human food tastes like "paste, chalk, soap" to him. Claudia used to enjoy eating macarons, but after her transition into a vampire, only human blood tastes sweet to her vampire palate.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Vampires gain these, even being capable of hearing people's heartbeats. It turns out vampires' telepathy also works on this, by ''literally'' hearing thoughts (Lestat says that, as with hearing heartbeats, they're people's brains at work).

* ''Series/{{Intergalactic}}'': Candy smells things with her tongue like snakes, and can detect fear by doing so.

* ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'': Satoru Gojo's Six Eyes technique allows him to view the world around him with incredible detail through Curse energy even when blindfolded, right down to objects with no Curse energy like buildings through the leftover Curse energy around them. Akutami describes Gojo's vision when blindfolded as looking at things with "high resolution thermal graphics."

The less well-known human senses, of body position (proprioception) and orientation, are generally not addressed by this trope, but may be subsumed into SuperReflexes and other agility-related powers.

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

** [[spoiler:Jaco]] has an incredibly sharp sight, [[UpToEleven superior to Tien's]]. In his own series he could see a boat clearly enough to tell how many people were on it when it was too small for a normal human to even notice the boat, and in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' he can follow the battle between Goku and Golden Frieza (of the Z Fighters, all of which are far more powerful, only Gohan and Vegeta can do it. Not even Tien could see it, they were too fast even for him), and later can see [[spoiler:Frost cheating]], something that escaped ''two Gods of Destruction''.

** Don't forget that Eleven was actually able to ''tell how much time had passed'' just by ''licking the wood off of Amy's shed''.

* Thermoman in ''Series/MyHero'' also seems to have this power. He can smell natural disasters. Yes, smell natural disaster.

* [[WildChild Miata]]'s special ability in the ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' Manga comes from her extremely developed senses. Her five basic senses, vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch, are all so finely honed that she's able to fight an opponent in an almost entirely instinctive manner without the filter of conscious thought, an ability the men of the [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Organization]] call "the Sixth Sense". In spite of this however [[Film/TheSixthSense Miata is still not able to see dead people]]. What a scam!
* Francoise (aka 003) from ''Manga/Cyborg009'' had ultra-augmented eyesight and hearing coming from her Cyborg enhancements. Problem is, the poor girl's powers aren't always on par with her more physically-geared teammates skills, which often causes her genuine psychological distress since she more than once feels useless compared to them.

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

* ''ComicBook/ContestOfChampions'': White Fox has astoundingly good smell, able to distinguish what reality something is from (or isn't, in some cases).

->'''Homer''': Wait, I can smell cake... cake that says "Farewell"... and...'' *gasps* ''"BEST WISHES!"\\
'''Nelson''': Your old man has an ''awesome'' nose.\\
'''Bart''': Oh that's nothing, he can ''hear'' pudding.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?"

** Jotaro's stand Star Platinum has extraordinarily good vision, being able to draw a fly in the back of a dusty and dark photograph with such detail that they determined where the photo was taken based on the fly's native origin.
** Yuya Fungami from Part 4 has a [[TheNoseKnows strong sense of smell]] which he acquired by stealing nutrients from other people. He could tell if a peach has gone bad from across the room, track down a person by their scent and even determine someone's emotional state by the smell of their adrenaline.
** Pillar Men from part 2 come from a [[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 the location of a person by sensing air currents caused by 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 an UltimateLifeForm, Kars]] takes it a step further -- [[spoiler: in this form his eyes work as well as an astronomical telescope, his ears can hear sounds on every frequency, and he grows antennae that can sense heat and air movements]].

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' reveals that the Protheans had senses so incredibly developed and acute that they bordered on PsychicPowers, allowing them to literally read information encoded on a genetic level. [[spoiler: Javik, the sole surviving Prothean, uses this ability to instantly absorb all known galactic languages from Shepherd's TranslatorMicrobes, as well as all of Shepherd's knowledge of the current galactic situation, with a single touch.]]

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Father Knows Worst", Homer gains new taste buds that magnify his sense of taste to such a degree that eating anything with even the smallest amount of flavour is intolerable if not hazardous to him.

** Alpha takes advantage of Akira's organic wireless BrainComputerInterface to connect the EverythingSensor of his PoweredArmor into his brain, which manifests as something akin vibrations.

** There are a certain type of DifferentlyPoweredIndividual like this as a result of {{Precursors}} {{Transhuman}} experimentation they inherited, being able to tell if someone is looking at them from a long distance away for instance, generally manifesting as intuition. Part of the reason HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic in the setting is because they blocks that effect.