History Main / Hyperawareness

** Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas have this too in the form of the compass radar, which displays markers showing the player where other sentient beings are. The range at which these markers appear is based on the character's ''perception'' attribute.
** Also in Fallout: New Vegas is the ''Spotter'' perk granted by a companion that highlights hostiles when you aim down the sights, making it way easier to pick out enemies even if their coloration camouflages them.

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* Kopaka from ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' seems to be developing this. Having XRayVision probably helps.
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* Adrian Series/{{Monk}}. In one episode, a rock is thrown through his psychiatrist's window. He recognizes the rock. You really can't get much more hyper aware than that. This is implied to be partly a result of his SuperOCD. In one episode, his psychiatrist prescribes him pills that allow him to relax and reduce his OCD. As a result, his detective skills also suffer.

* Black from ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' can have this, but only when he's using his Munna's abilities to cancel out his SuperOCD.

** Lily, as mentioned, was (and being NotQuiteDead, is) an example of this. As Sirius puts it, while the rest of them were smart, Lily ''saw'' things - which is how, during the First Order of the Phoenix, she figured out that Wanda was pregant with [[spoiler: Hermione]] being the only one apart from Remus at the time to even guess. Hermione makes the comparison between her and Harry when she encounters Lily's spirit and sees this tendency first hand.

* Used by Kato in the ''Radio/GreenHornet'' remake. It's used to explain how he can fight so efficiently. It is also parodied and then used straight by [[spoiler:Brit when he spends several minutes staring into space while working out the plot twist and then to save Kato, respectively.]]

-->'''Zed:''' "May I ask why you felt little Tiffany deserved to die?"
-->'''Edwards:''' "Well, she was the only one that actually seemed dangerous at the time, sir."
-->'''Zed:''' "How'd you come to that conclusion?"
-->'''Edwards:''' "Well, first I was gonna pop this guy hanging from the street light, and I realized, y'know, he's just working out. I mean, how would I feel if somebody come runnin' in the gym and bust me in my ass while I'm on the treadmill? Then I saw this snarling beast guy, and I noticed he had a tissue in his hand, and I'm realizing, y'know, he's not snarling, he's sneezing. Y'know, ain't no real threat there. Then I saw little Tiffany. I'm thinking, y'know, eight-year-old white girl, middle of the ghetto, bunch of monsters, this time of night with quantum physics books? She about to start some shit, Zed. She's about eight years old, those books are '''''WAY''''' too advanced for her. If you ask me, I'd say she's up to something. And to be honest, I'd appreciate it if you eased up off my back about it." (pause) "Or do I owe her an apology?"

* Played for horror in the ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Nightingale}}'', where Neji's byakugan -- which gives him XRayVision and almost 360 degrees of vision -- is turned on permanently. He slowly looses his mind and begins hallucinating because he can no longer handle seeing ''everything'' around him all at once.

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* The Literature/BastardOperatorFromHell uses his HyperAwareness to set up his {{plan}}s.
* Roc (Tagg's Staraptor♂), in ''Roleplay/WeAreAllPokemonTrainers'', exhibits this trope, nicely contrasting (or complementing) his laziness for eg.: a SherlockScan. His daughter, Shahinne (Silent's Starly♀) has inherited some of it, such as being able to sense one of her teammates has been dragged to the Netherworld.
* Spectre from ''Series/{{Noob}}'' has this and the creator admitted to lifting the cause (e.g. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_inhibition low latent inhibition]]) from a certain ''Series/PrisonBreak'' character. It becomes relevant in the webseries storyline as it's also the version that reveals that [[spoiler:Tenshirock's wife had low latent inhibition, which eventually lead to her death. It also turns out Tenshirock spent time as Spectre's guildmate before becoming a hacker, figured out his condition and got him to quit the MMORPG they were both playing. Spectre's storyline exists because he ended his retirement during the main timeframe]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' {{invoke|dTrope}}s this in "Peggy's Turtle Song"; Bobby is diagnosed with ADD, and is given Ritalin that hones his attention [[PlayedForLaughs to superpower levels.]]
-->'''Bobby''': (sniffs) There's some milk in the fridge that's about to go bad. ({{beat}}) ''And there it goes.''

** [[spoiler:[[Literature/SherlockHolmes James Watson]]]] has all the analytical abilities that Zimmerman has but turned up to eleven.

* Ravenwing teaches this to the scouts of the Clan of the Hawk in ''Webcomic/WanderingOnes''. At the same time, others in the clan are taking the awareness to a [[UpToEleven metaphysical level]].

* Due to have gained her powers in a freak accident that spliced her DNA with Mar-Vell's, ComicBook/CarolDanvers also has Cosmic Awareness... but her version is much less reliable than Mar-Vell's, and often forgotten (with the precise correlation between the two being uncertain). She also doesn't have access to this power during her time as Binary.

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': Minor effect of a potion that Harry puts together in ''Fool Moon''. It's a "pick-me-up" or a "super-coffee", and before it wears off, he has shades of this. And composes a symphony. And blows all the tires of a truck on the highway. It was a sharing kind of mood. He also has shades of this when Thomas asks him to size up all the people in the park at the end of Turn Coat. This one is much more mundane -- throughout the series he's mentioned things he's noticed as an investigator. Sure, [[MaleGaze most of them were features of women]] (or people who might be trying to kill him, who are frequently women), but his skill as an investigator is renowned, and its a very practicable skill as an investigator. Earlier in the same book, Harry got access to a kind of localized omniscience called "Intellectus". He realizes, while in its throes, that because he's unfamiliar with it, he's visibly reacting to it (knowing there's someone there, he's trying to look for them) and therefore must look crazy. More than usual, anyway. It makes his trying to convince two hostile parties to work together that much harder.

* Marvel's first ComicBook/CaptainMarVell (not to be confused with [[Comicbook/{{Shazam}} the original Captain Marvel]]) was gifted with Cosmic Awareness, that let him perceive everything around him. The limits of this ability weren't clear, but when he got it, he sensed without any mirror that his hair had turned from white to blond. He also could find the best timing to avoid a hit or to attack himself, and was also a plot point when Thanos became the entire universe thanks to the Cosmic Cube. He even became aware that he had cancer long before he underwent any medical tests to confirm it.

* In ''Series/Watchmen2019'', this is Wade Tillman/Looking Glass' [[BadassNormal "superpower"]], although it's [[{{Deconstruction deconstructed]] to a significant degree. Being incredibly observant of human behavior, from outward expression to involuntary reflexes from subtle stimuli, [[AwesomenessByAnalysis he makes for an excellent police interrogator]]. However, [[BlessedWithSuck this is largely born out of a general paranoia of being around other people]], being inherently distrusting and [[TheParanoiac constantly anxious that something is about to go horribly wrong with the world]]. He tries to ease up on this with regards to his love life, but his inability to fully accept and understand people on an intimate, personal level proves to be his own downfall, having led to the collapse of his marriage and [[spoiler:getting lured and trapped by a Seventh Kavalry member [[LoveIsAWeakness preying on his emotions]]]].

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': Minor effect of a potion that Harry puts together in ''Fool Moon''. It's a "pick-me-up" or a "super-coffee", and before it wears off, he has shades of this. And composes a symphony. And blows all the tires of a truck on the highway. It was a sharing kind of mood. He also has shades of this when Thomas asks him to size up all the people in the park at the end of Turn Coat. This one is much more mundane -- throughout the series he's mentioned things he's noticed as an investigator. Sure, [[MaleGaze most of them were features of women]], but his skill as an investigator is renown, and its a very practicable skill as an investigator. Earlier in the same book, Harry got access to a kind of localized omniscience called "Intellectus". He realizes, while in its throes, that because he's unfamiliar with it, he's visibly reacting to it (knowing there's someone there, he's trying to look for them) and therefore must look crazy. More than usual, anyway. It makes his trying to convince two hostile parties to work together that much harder.

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'':

* Colonel Hal Moore in ''Film/WeWereSoldiers'' seemed to have a situational awareness that seriously bordered on pre-cognition with him being able to read the tide of battle a little too well resulting from [[OldSoldier decades of military service]], one shared by [[NotSoDifferent the North Vietnamese commander in turn.]]

** KlatchianCoffee takes you from drunk to sober and ''all the way out the other side'', so you're knurd (anti-drunk). At this point, the rose-colored glasses are stripped away from you, and you see reality for how it really is. ("This involves a lot of screaming.") Then you drink lots of and lots of ''orakh'' (a Klatchian GargleBlaster) and swear you'll never get knurd again. It is joked that Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch was born two drinks on the knurd side of sober, so he needs a drink or two to just be normal. This both makes him intensely cynical and gives him a tendency towards alcoholism. It also effectively makes him the straight man for an entire world of absurdity. Vimes, who says that new coppers glance once at a street and miss all the important things, like people hiding in the shadows and trying to kill you; experienced coppers like Angua will look carefully to make sure they get everything, and ''really'' experienced ones like Colon and Nobby will take one look, because that's all they need, has another type of hyper-awareness in that most of the time he can glance down a darkened street and see everyone there, including those trying to hide in the shadows.

-->'''Vimes:''' You really believe that? ...And you still get up in the morning?

*** Taylor's HyperAwareness is such that when she's [[spoiler: blinded by an explosion]], she remains so aware of her surroundings that ''no one notices'' and she doesn't bother mentioning it. And she's not sitting down either-she escapes a deathtrap, then fights a Endbringer-level opponent without any loss of effectiveness.

** Will Graham's overabundance of mirror neurons gives him a [[Film/TheRainman rainman]]-esque talent for reconstructing crime scenes, gauging how a murder took place and inferring the killer's mindset from a glance around the scene. He very much considers this being BlessedWithSuck, since it forces him to adopt the mindset of some very sick people.

** Will Graham's overabundance of mirror neurons gives him a [[TheRainman rainman]]-esque talent for reconstructing crime scenes, gauging how a murder took place and inferring the killer's mindset from a glance around the scene. He very much considers this being BlessedWithSuck, since it forces him to adopt the mindset of some very sick people.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan''

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic''

* In ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' hyper awareness is one of the things that links Tsuna to the first head of the Vongola family. It's actually in his blood though it's unknown if other Vongola boss possess the same traits. In the anime, [[spoiler:the test of intituation is the one Tsuna could pass with closed eyes if he wanted to AND if Verde wasn't trying to experimenting on them.]]
* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', several of the girls in Negi's class qualify for this, but Yue in particular is very very good at noticing minute details.

* ''[[Fanfic/TheGamesWePlayTheGamerRWBY The Games We Play]]'': A ''[[Webcomic/TheGamer Gamer]]'' × ''[[{{WebAnimation/RWBY}} RWBY]]'' cross-fic, in which the protagonist gradually unlocks a wide variety of information-gathering abilities, and eventually learns that there is a reason why these abilities are moving him closer and closer towards omniscience.

* In the ''VideoGame/KisekiSeries'', people who are practitioners of the [[FantasticFightingStyle Eight Leaves, One Blade]] style are able to sense other people despite being so far away from them, are from a different room, or are in different rooms far away from them. [[TheHero Rean Schwarzer]] from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'' plays this for laughs in his third game where he's able to sense his students if he's in a room, privately talking with somebody with the door closed and calls them out.