| Power Telekinesis |
| Total Entries 16 |
| Representative Master Mystic |
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Telekinesis/Psychokinesis: the ability to move stuff and/or people just by thinking. Although it fundamentally only requires a thought to work, hand gestures can also help, especially if they make the user look focused. How does the glass lift up but not everything else nearby? Because the glass is what the hero wanted to lift up. As superpowers go, it’s one of the most useful and straightforward, and in its more refined form, it allows the user to manipulate any object in a wide number of ways, not only the more intuitive lifting and moving around. Nevertheless, it is very rarely used up to its full potential, as almost every fight would become trivial if it ended with a telekinetic “Neck Snap”. This is usually justified by stating or implying the user is not dexterous and/or precise enough to give his foe anything more than a good rough push or pull, although sheer psychic strength is often enough to crush or squash an enemy in a less subtle way. Being a “Psychic Power”, we don’t have to worry so much about violating the laws of physics. That said, its major limitation seems to be precisely its scalability: it is almost always harder to lift a heavy object than a light one, and a person with this superpower will often be seen to be visibly straining to accomplish it, as if their telekinesis took the form of a long but entirely physical “invisible arm” with all the normal physical limitations that normally implies. Pushing this ability past its limit often leads to a “Psychic Nosebleed” or even passing out, and it is even possible to die due to the effort… ~ Mind over Matter – TV Tropes
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