Telepathy

Telepathy is a psychic skill often employed by characters in giant monster media. Telepathy involves one individual speaking or communicating with another individual through only the use of their mind.

Known users

Godzilla series

• Godzilla - Besides physical communication, Godzilla has been depicted possessing the capability of telepathy in Godzilla vs. Hedorah, the Heisei-era films, the continuity of IDW Publishing's comic book Godzilla: Rulers of Earth and its two prequels, Godzilla: Cataclysm, and the Legendary Comics graphic novel Godzilla Dominion. His superior intelligence and mental strength can prevent other telepaths from being able to influence him for long if at all. In Godzilla vs. Biollante and Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla, the Heisei Godzilla resisted Miki Saegusa's attempts at achieving mind control over him, even with technological enhancement in the latter case. Similarly in Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters, Godzilla resisted Minette and Mallory's attempt to mind control him to complete futility. In Godzilla: Cataclysm, Godzilla had been subjected to humanity's attempt at psychically controlling monsters, which only succeeded in enraging him. Aside from that, Godzilla inferably possessed a psychic connection to the elderly survivor Hiroshi Aramata. In Godzilla Dominion, it is established that Godzilla's diverse arsenal of senses and abilities includes telepathy, which he utilizes at the end of the comic to put the other Titans back to their ancient rest.
• Miki Saegusa - Miki, born psychic, can utilise telepathy through her ESP abilities to communicate with Godzilla and his son.
• Biollante - Biollante is able to produce telepathic signals that Godzilla and Miki Saegusa can detect.
• Godzilla Junior - Godzilla Junior is able to use telepathy to communicate with Godzilla and Rodan and draw them to his location.
• Rodan - Rodan is able to communicate telepathically with BabyGodzilla.
• Mothra - Mothra communicates with her Shobijin using telepathy. The Shobijin are also able to use telepathy to read the thoughts of humans and kaiju.
• Orga - Orga seems to have telepathic control of the Millennian UFO when he is battling Godzilla while outside of the ship, as he is able to command it from afar to attack Godzilla.
• Exif - The Exif were revealed to have telepathic powers when Metphies used them to communicate with Miana. Metphies later used this telepathy in an attempt to convince Haruo Sakaki to give in to Ghidorah's influence, through the creation of powerful hallucinations.
• Houtua - The Houtua use their telepathic powers to communicate with other races and with Mothra's egg.
• Iwi - The Iwi in Hollow Earth use telepathy to communicate with one another.
• King Ghidorah - at least two incarnations of King Ghidorah possess telepathy. In the GODZILLA anime trilogy, Ghidorah can influence intelligent beings into worshiping him. In the Monsterverse, Bernie Hayes states that King Ghidorah's heads communicate with each other via telepathy.

Gamera series

• Virians - Several examples of the technology utilised by the Virians revolve around telepathy, and can be found on their spacecraft. These include the Brainwave Decryption Device, which can be used to transmit instructions directly into the mind of a specified target, and a special item delivery system which will present the user with whatever they request, so long as it cannot be used to inflict harm on the spacecraft or its crew.
• Gamera - In the Heisei Gamera trilogy, Gamera shares a telepathic connection with a person who bears an Atlantean magatama, who would effectively act as a priest or priestess for him capable of reading his thoughts; one such person was a girl named Asagi Kusenagi. In GAMERA -Rebirth-, Gamera is capable of "contacting" a person and choosing them to share a psychic link; one such chosen person was a boy named Boco.
• Asagi Kusanagi - After receiving an Atlantean magatama as a gift, Asagi gained a psychic link with Gamera. She was able to read his thoughts and communicate with him, but also received his pain, injuries, and state of being (such as resting when he rested). However, Gamera could heal her wounds. Their connection was ultimately severed when Gamera was revitalized following his battle with the Legion in Sendai.
• Iris - Through similar, but more sinister means than Gamera, Iris is able to form a telepathic bond with a person. Notably, he formed a bond with a girl named Ayana Hirasaka.
• Ayana Hirasaka - After discovering a magatama in an abandoned shrine, Ayana formed a psychic bond with Iris. This bond was strong enough to alter her brain morphology.
• Boco - Following "contact" with Gamera, Boco developed a telepathic link with the kaiju. This allowed him to innately know Gamera's name, hear Gamera's thoughts, see his memories, and share his pain. Boco, along with his friends who had encountered Gamera, was also able to sense other kaiju present.

Miscellaneous

• Ohmu - The Ohmu can telepathically communicate with each other.

See also

• Telekinesis

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