History Main / TechnoPath

* In ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' and its sequel series ''Literature/HeroesOfOlympus'' have the children of Hephaestus. One of the chief characters of the latter series is able to understand the inner workings of certain machines by simply touching them.

%%* Upgrade from ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}''.
%%** Cooper as well.
%%** Any [[MechanicalLifeforms Galvanic Mechamorph]] (With Upgrade being one of them) qualifies as this. Of special mention is Malware, the BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse''.

* The third [[Characters/MarvelComicsLoki Loki]] from ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' exhibited technomantic affinity in their [[ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard solo series]], of course in this case this means actual magic. We don't know exactly how they do it, but they claimed that it's easy because ''technology is very gullible'' so it might involve [[ConsummateLiar lying]]. There is even a possible future version of Loki who evolved into a ContagiousAI.

* ComicBook/CaptainAtom had the ability to telepathically link to and access computers and telecomunnication networks, which makes sense, since his power set includes the ability to manipulate matter and energy in theoretically limitless ways. We only ever see him use this aspect of his abilities much in ''ComicBook/CaptainAtom: Armageddon''. Interestingly, the Silver Shield, the being Cap got his powers from in the first place, had the ability to communicate telepathically with human beings, so it stands to reason that Cap could do so also, although he never seems to have figured out how.

* ComicBook/{{Oracle}} (a.k.a. Barbara Gordon), is normally only a hypercompetent PlayfulHacker, but she develops technopathic abilities after a [[TheVirus remnant]] of Brainiac decides to use her as a [[FetusTerrible brood mare]] so he can reconstitute. She manages to defeat him, but some programming is left behind, and decides to enhance her of its own accord, giving her subdermal circuitry and the like. This programming allows her to control computers remotely through a mask interface. Eventually, it gets [[AIIsACrapshoot too big for its britches]], and is removed surgically.

* Franchise/{{Superman}}:
** ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} and his counterpart from the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes, Brainiac 5. In fact, this is one of Brainiac's few consistent powers, alongside his SuperIntelligence.
** Hank Henshaw, the Cyborg-Superman, a recurring villain in the Superman and Green Lantern titles. Actually an EnergyBeing, he is able to project himself into robotic bodies, and create cloned bodies based on Superman's DNA, into which he then integrates any technology he captures.

** Jimmy Olsen of ComicBook/TheNew52 ''ComicBook/Earth2'', known as Accountable, is able to access news feeds just by holding onto a smartphone for a few minutes.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':

* ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'' has [[spoiler: Apex, and her twin brother Tim who are technopaths.]]
* ComicBook/DoctorOctopus has been getting this attributed to him lately.
* Thanks to {{Nanomachines}}, ComicBook/IronMan can directly interface with most digital technology ''using only his mind.'' Still, it gets some getting used to, as [[spoiler: people start thinking he's schizophrenic because he's suffering from a form of 'information overflow' and can't turn it off. Though his hallucinations do come in handy with regards to the plot.]]. He lost this power after Secret Invasion.
** Minor character Cybermancer (Suzi Endo) had these powers. She was heavily involved in ''The Crossing'', an infamous ContinuitySnarl, until she was RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap as ComicBook/WarMachine's technical advisor.
* The 3rd Loki from ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' exhibited technomantic affinity in their [[ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard solo series]], of course in this case this means actual magic. We don't know exactly how they do it, but they claimed that it's easy because ''technology is very gullible'' so it might involve [[ConsummateLiar lying]]. There is even a possible future version of Loki who evolved into a ContagiousAI.

* Because it was spawned when Carnage was being used as organic circuitry for a prosthetic arm, the symbiote named Scorn is described as not being able to discern the difference between technology and organics, freely capable of manipulating both. Carnage eventually learns how to do this, and turns Tony's own armor against him.
** In the 100th Spider-Man anniversary issue, in fact an issue only depicting what a 100th anniversary story would be like, Venom has been modified to be able to control and travel through electronics.

** New Mutant Cypher has the mutant power to communicate in any kind of language. And yes, that includes programming language. [[spoiler:This is how he manages to shut off the Master Molds, render the massive wave of Nimrods completely unoperational and throw the ultimate wrench into Bastion's plans towards the end of ''Second Coming''.]]
** Network, a mutant that could speak to technology and control it. The simpler the technology, the easier a time she had controlling it.
** Subverted with Sage. She is called a cyberpath, and her brain operates like a computer, but she doesn't seem to be able to communicate with machines on her own. She's got a spiffy command center and lives in an EverythingIsOnline universe. She's recently gotten CoolShades which contain a wireless link to computers.
** ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} is one of the greatest as well as most convoluted examples of this power. Ironically enough, because infecting Nathan Summers with his T.O. virus as a child had his older future self come after him in the past, demonstrating his own technopathic abilities, and [[TemporalParadox infecting En Sabah Nur with his own techno pathogen he'd grow into when Cable killed him]].
** [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]] is also capable of technopathy, via one of the more arcane uses of his vast PsychicPowers, scanning a database in seconds. He rarely uses it, as he rarely needs to - given that he's the most powerful psychic in the Marvel Universe at his peak and an outright RealityWarper, this is njot surprising.
** Tom Skylark in Creator/GrantMorrison's "Here Comes Tomorrow" is a mutant technopath who is able to make friends with a mutant-hunting robot.
** Madison Jeffries, formerly of ComicBook/AlphaFlight and later a recruit of the [[Comicbook/XMen X-Club]] can reshape metal, plastic and glass at will, often by talking to it.
** David Bond (page image), also known as Hijack, is a mutant with the power to control vehicular mechanisms at will, including cars, and even helicarriers.
** The mutant called the Reanimator, who can control anything electronic (such as [[HumongousMecha Sentinels]]. Uh-oh.)

* Very minor example: from ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}, the "weird-looking fucker" communicates with his children via electrical signals. This might have been Spider just generalizing it, but..

* With Chucky being a robot in the ''[[Film/ChildsPlay2019 Child's Play]]'' remake, he can control anything made by the same company that made him. Including [=TVs=], phones, remote control drones, and automated automobiles.

* Franchise/{{Robocop}} has an [[UnusualUserInterface Universal Interface Spike]] in his arm that can talk to any computer in TheVerse. It also has stabbity applications.

** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' has a boy who changed the TV by blinking, and later controlled a computer display the same way. Don't know if he's up to turning a toaster into a lethal weapon, though.

** After awakening in the modern world [[Film/XMenApocalypse Apocalypse]] learns the languages and layout just by touching a TV screen and taping into all the broadcasts everywhere.

* Series/{{Tracker}} has a variant of this-Cole is able to control and manipulate machines using his own energy, since he is an EnergyBeing.

** ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} is one of the greatest as well as most convoluted examples of this power. Ironically enough, because infecting Nathan Summers with his T.O. virus as a child had his older future self come after him in the past. [[TemporalParadox Infecting En Sabah Nur with his own techno pathogen he'd grow into when Cable killed him]].

** Madison Jeffries, formerly of ComicBook/AlphaFlight and now a new recruit of the [[Comicbook/XMen X-Club]] can reshape metal, plastic and glass at will, often by talking to it.

* {{Technopath}}:

* The Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse's Victor Stone/Cyborg in ''[[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague Justice League]]''. Due to being now paryl made from a Mother Box's technology, he is able to connect and interface seamlessly with anything technological from Earth and beyond, including being constantly plugged into the Internet. Notably, Cyborg is able to gain access to the Kryptonian ship's interface, and he also takes control of the Knightcrawler and reactivates it after it was wrecked by Steppenwolf. He even completely rebuilds a tape recorder he smashed to tiny bits, with it none the worse for wear.

* With Chucky being a robot in the ''[[Film/ChildsPlay2019 Child's Play]]'' remake, he can control anything made by the same company that made him. Including [=TVs=], phones remote control drones and Automated automobiles.

* In ''Literature/{{Zeroes}}'', Crash has the power to affect complex machinery, allowing her to destroy anything computerized. She later learns to use her powers to repair tech as well as to destroy it.[[/folder]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'':

** ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} and his counterpart from the ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}, Brainiac 5. In fact, this is one of Brainiac's few consistent powers, alongside his SuperIntelligence.

%%* [[BigBad Octalus Percy Defoe]] and [[LoveInterest Laurie Hemmings]] in ''VideoGame/ThePKGirl''. While PsychicPowers are uncommon in the setting, technopathy is ''extremely rare'' and the former...
''[[StalkerWithATestTube desires]]'' the latter for this reason.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** Joseph Joestar acquires the [[FightingSpirit Stand]] Hermit Purple, which can 'plug in' to items such as cameras and televisions to produce a sort of '[[CombatClairvoyance scrying]]' effect, showing Joseph a picture of something happening at that very moment somewhere in the world. Interestingly, its scrying power isn't limited to technology (he once produced a map of a city, marked with a key location he needed to find, from spilled ashes) and its technology manipulation isn't limited to scrying (he used it once to regain control of a crashing airplane), though he typically uses them in tandem.
** Paisley Park, the Stand of Yasuho Hirose from ''Manga/{{JoJolion}}'', has the ability to manipulate technology to guide Yasuho and her allies to the optimal outcome for her. It's done such things as hijack a GPS system, switch around some google search results, and - on multiple occasions - hack into security footage to track an enemy.

* ''ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'':
** ComicBook/CosmicBoy can use his MagnetismManipulation on electronic devices in much more refined ways than most of his opponents realize:
--->''"Obviously your technical education doesn't extend to computer science doctor, or you'd be aware that all computer memories store their data electronically, and that's child's play to rearrange magnetically."''
** Gear (himself a RidiculouslyHumanRobot) from the post-reboot Legion, via UnusualUserInterface.
* ComicBook/{{Oracle}} (a.k.a. Barbara Gordon), is normally only a hypercompetent PlayfulHacker, but she develops technopathic abilities after a [[TheVirus remnant]] of Brainiac decides to use her as a [[FetusTerrible brood mare]] so he can reconstitute. She manages to defeat him, but some programming is left behind, and decides to enhance her of its own accord, giving her subdermal circuitry and the like. This programming allows her to control computers remotely through a mask interface. Eventually, it gets [[AIIsACrapshoot too big for its britches]], and is removed surgically.
* ComicBook/CaptainAtom had the ability to telepathically link to and access computers and telecomunnication networks, which makes sense, since his power set includes the ability to manipulate matter and energy in theoretically limitless ways. We only ever see him use this aspect of his abilities much in ''ComicBook/CaptainAtom: Armageddon''. Interestingly, the Silver Shield, the being Cap got his powers from in the first place, had the ability to communicate telepathically with human beings, so it stands to reason that Cap could do so also, although he never seems to have figured out how.
* Eugene Choi from ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'' can talk to and control machines in his superpowered form alongside the standard FlyingBrick powers.

* The man called the Reanimator, who can control anything electronic (such as [[HumongousMecha Sentinels]]. Uh-oh.)

* Minor character Cybermancer (Suzi Endo) had these powers. She was heavily involved in ''The Crossing'', an infamous ContinuitySnarl, until she was RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap as ComicBook/WarMachine's technical advisor.
* ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'' has [[spoiler: Apex, and her twin brother Tim who are technopaths.]]
* The 3rd Loki from ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' exhibited technomantic affinity in their [[ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard solo series]], of course in this case this means actual magic. We don't know exactly how they do it, but they claimed that it's easy because ''technology is very gullible'' so it might involve [[ConsummateLiar lying]]. There is even a possible future version of Loki who evolved into a ContagiousAI.
* ComicBook/DoctorOctopus has been getting this attributed to him lately.
* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': For a time, Tony Stark could control machines with the tumor in his brain, which manifested as a child Tony inside his head.
* Because it was spawned when Carnage was being used as organic circuitry for a prosthetic arm, the symbiote named Scorn is described as not being able to discern the difference between technology and organics, freely capable of manipulating both. Carnage eventually learns how to do this, and turns Tony's own armor against him.
** In the 100th Spider-Man anniversary issue, in fact an issue only depicting what a 100th anniversary story would be like, Venom has been modified to be able to control and travel through electronics.
* The Avengers once fought a man with the ability to control machines who attacked a demolition derby under the belief that the machines were in pain and needed liberating. When confronted by the Vision, the Avengers' resident sentient machine, with the prospect of reading his feelings he realizes that he's actually delusional and can't read machine minds at all.

* ''Fanfic/Homecoming2026'': Cyberpaths, an alternate name for those with the power, are mentioned, with the implication that their power involves manipulating computers with their minds.

* Gwen Grayson from ''Film/SkyHigh2005'' is the TropeNamer, her superpower being her ability to control technology with her mind. [[spoiler:Under her original identity, Sue Tenny, this made her an outcast and got her [[PopularityPolynomial relegated to sidekick duty]] while the popular kids called her a MadScientist, as technopathy was [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway not seen as particularly useful]] back in TheSeventies -- and [[CreateYourOwnVillain sure enough]], she became the {{supervillain}} Royal Pain. After de-aging herself, she returned to Sky High in the '00s and found that, in a more computer-driven society, [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower her power is actually extremely potent]], and on her second go-around her powers made her [[AlphaBitch the most popular girl in school]].]]
* ''Sky High'' was a loose remake of a Creator/DisneyChannel MadeForTVMovie called ''Film/UpUpAndAway'' where Adam Marshall (AKA Silver Charge) can manipulate electromagnetic fields. He can, reportedly, use them to hack into computers. However, the one time we're shown him attempting, he gets overexcited and fries the machine. He is much better at causing LaserGuidedAmnesia in people.
* Naydenov in ''Film/WhiteTiger'' says tanks talk to him — active tanks tell him how to dodge shells, and wrecked tanks tell him how they met their ends.
* ''Film/IBoy'': Tom becomes this courtesy of his accident that left a piece of phone stuck in his brain. He's initially only able to "see" electrical signals and telecommunicatons through ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation, but he's able to hack into any network, operate cars, and even explode things.
* The T-X from ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'' is designed by [=SkyNet=] as an "Anti-Terminator Terminator", presumably to counteract the human resistance's repeated reprogrammings of captured Terminator models. Her design includes nanotech to reprogram and remote control other machines. Throughout the film these include cars, trucks, primitive T-1s, and even the Arnie T-850 at one point.

* Franchise/{{Robocop}} has an [[UnusualUserInterface Universal Interface Spike]] in his arm that can talk to any computer in TheVerse. It also has stabbity applications.

* Arguably, the titular protagonists of the [[Film/TetsuoTheIronMan Tetsuo]] film series are this, gaining a rudimentary control over anything metallic, drawing it to them or turning it to scrap or turning other people into 'Tetsuos', as well as the typical manifesting metal from their bodies.

* With Chucky being a robot in the ''[[Film/ChildsPlay2019 Child's Play]]'' remake, he can control anything made by the same company that made him. Including [=TVs=], phones remote control drones and Automated automobiles.

* In ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' and its sequel series ''Literature/HeroesOfOlympus'' have the children of Hephaestus. One of the chief characters of the latter series is able to understand the inner workings of certain machines by simply touching them.
* Nudge from ''Literature/MaximumRide'' eventually gains the power to hack computers by touching them.
%%* This is Kit's specialty in the ''Literature/YoungWizards'' books.
%%** And later Dairine's.
* The limited use of this ability is one of many talents that makes the [[PsychoForHire psychopathic]] villain Dread from Creator/TadWilliams' ''Literature/{{Otherland}}'' so scary. In his case, it manifests as telekinesis that operates on the level of individual electrons, allowing him to alter the state of an electronic device independent of its programming. He uses it on an instinctual level, and refers to it as his "twist".
* ''Literature/HIVESeries'': Otto has an [[TechnoWizard innate understanding of computer systems]] and can interface with more advanced {{artificial intelligence}}s using his mind.
* The Mechanic from the ''Literature/WildCards'' series, the hitch being he has to physically interface by cutting himself and putting the wound to the machine. Fortunately he also heals real fast.

* Heather Farley, a rebellious young student in A. C. Crispin's [=StarBridge=] series, is both a traditional telepath and a cyberpath; she swears off using the latter ability after she nearly gets trapped in a computer system.
* Mostly the [[TheCracker cybreakers]] and the mnemonics in ''Literature/TheHistoryOfTheGalaxy'' later (timeline-wise) novels, but also anyone with a simple brain implant that translates brainwaves into digital commands which allows them to mentally control household appliances and the like. One of the novels mentions a cybreaker who was threatened with a gun (a futuristic MagneticWeapon), while he remotely disabled the firing circuit (wouldn't have happened with a conventional gun, but those are nigh-impossible to find). Also, when a bunch of thugs attempt to physically assault him in a restaurant, he takes control of one of the server robots and has it stab one of the thugs before asking the others if they would like a table. They can also use the same brain implants that everyone has to conduct CyberTelepathy.

* Not shown, but referenced in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}''. Ax complains about primitive human computers not even having a psychic link.[[note]]Since the Andalite's normal mode of communication is telepathic anyway, this is basically equivalent to ordinary voice recognition.[[/note]]
* This is the eponymous character's power set in ''Literature/JackBlank''. He calls it being able to "talk to machines", which does give him telepathy with any programmed system, as well as being able to telekinetically influence anything with moving parts.
* In ''Coils'' by Creator/RogerZelazny and Creator/FredSaberhagen, the narrator and protagonist Don [=BelPatri=] can go into telepathic/clairvoyant rapport with computers.
* In ''Literature/AngelStation'', Beautiful Maria has a ''really'' good understanding of technology, definitely surpassing any mundane talent.
* ''Literature/HeartOfSteel'' offers a limited example in {{cyborg}} Alistair Mechanus. He has a mental link to the computer network of his island lair, allowing him to command his robots with a thought.
* In ''Literature/{{Zeroes}}'', Crash has the power to affect complex machinery, allowing her to destroy anything computerized. She later learns to use her powers to repair tech as well as to destroy it.
* In Rhiannon Lassiter's ''[[http://www.rhiannonlassiter.com/books/hex.html Hex]]'' series feature genetically engineered humans capable of interfacing directly with computers.
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* ''Series/{{Cybergirl}}'': Cy, Isaak and Xanda, all being humanoid robots, can interface with just about anything. This includes, but is not limited to: Stealing money from [=ATMs=], turning on every kitchen appliance that's not the oven, recovering deleted files and defeating security systems easily. Of course, this is partly due to the fact that not only is [[EverythingIsOnline everything online]], it is also on a network run by Top Dog Interactive.
* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' had a character from the episode "Power Hungry" with this. He had experiments performed on him by a MadScientist to give him this. Unfortunately, he hadn't the slightest control over it, and mutilated his boss, killed the woman he secretly adored, and shorted out his mother's pacemaker. He was later kidnapped by the same people responsible for his power and had it altered so he actually had control over technology, which he then used to escape.
* Emma's friend in the ''Series/MutantX'' episode "Interface" is a technopath. She further gets enhanced by GSA to become a WetwareCPU but is restored at the end of the episode. According to Emma, she is the only New Mutant who managed to counteract the effects of the [[PowerNullifier subdermal governor]] (presumably, she disabled it before they even activated the device). Many years before, both of them used to use their powers to cheat bartenders out of free drinks with Emma's [[TheEmpath empathy]] and, when the bartender eventually caught on, use her friend's power to shut off the lights and run away.

%%* [[{{Cyborg}} Seven of Nine]] from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''.
* On ''Series/{{Haven}}'' a repairman has a form of this ability; anything that he fixes comes to life and kills those who he dislikes, along with [[spoiler: those who would cause him to leave them]]. Unfortunately he has no control over this and until the end of the episode, he doesn't even know that it's him causing the machines to come to life.
* Ryan Walker from Series/MechX4 uses technopathy to disrupt electronics and change information on computer screens, usually to help him and his friends get into places or escape from situations. He also uses it to pilot the giant robot MECH-X4.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "Mona Lisa", the titular android is able to control any machine by remote. She uses this ability to hotwire a car and steal $100 from an ATM.
* ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'': In "Ghost in the Machine", Warren Trask gained the ability to control machines after taking promicin. This was not immediately apparent as he had a stroke which rendered him unable to speak or move before his powers manifested. However, Warren's mental faculties were unaffected. He managed to tap into the computers running his life support and spread a virus to every operating system developed by Ubient Software from [=ATMs=] and laptops to government mainframes and international banking databases. This had a severe effect on the global economy. Warren did so out of revenge as Ubient's CEO Drew Imroth stole the idea for the operating system Enzyme from him in the early 1980s and made billions while he received only $100,000 as part of an out of court settlement.

* ''Series/AceLightning'' has Random Virus, a morally confused cyborg with limited control over machinery.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' has several examples.
** Eldar Bonesingers, their equivalent of engineers and artisans. They literally sing to bring [[AppliedPhlebotinum wraithbone]] into existence and to shape it. Being a psychically sensitive material, it's the Craftworld Eldar's go-to building material for everything buildings to war machines.
** Ork Mekboyz aren't quite technopathic, but they have a workaround that's more like a cheat. Mekboyz can cobble together a machine which structurally can more or less work out, yet they really work on their species's gestalt psychic field. Their machines function relatively well because they will their machines into working [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve because they think they should]]. The best part is that the Orks aren't quite aware of this crutch, just just think that's the way the world works. The [[MachineWorship AdMech]] explain it via the Orks [[PercussiveMaintenance scaring their machines into submission.]]
** Senior members of the Adeptus Mechanicus (who can, in terms of humanity, can only generously be described as cyborgs) think they are. Though, [[DependingOnTheAuthor depending on the source in question]], they are only trained to be [[TechnoWizard very good with tech]] and think they're technopathic, and other times whether they are or not is [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane left open to interpretation]].
*** Speaking of the Mechanicus, a subsect called the Machine Empaths are trained to interact and coax the A.I. of an object into cooperation. Higher members can literally feel what a machine is thinking without a direct link.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' most hackers have to use a hacking rig called a cyberdeck which had to be connected by a [[BrainComputerInterface datajack]]. Then came the Otaku, kids who had a mysterious ability to interface with machinery and [[TheAlternet the matrix]] with nothing but a datajack, no extra equipment needed. Then the Crash 2.0 happened, and the Matrix was relaunched in a wireless format, and [[EverythingIsOnline practically everything]] is connected, even things that shouldn't be. The Otaku all disappeared when the wired internet got blown up, and were replaced by Technomancers, whose brains have an equally mysterious ability to access the new wireless internet by thought alone. In addition, they have access to the Resonance. Nobody is quite sure what it is, but the best guess is that it's the raw "stuff" of the Matrix, giving technomancers strange, impossible-on-paper abilities, including making simple AIs called sprites.
* The "machine empathy" mutant ability in ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' allows the mutant to make machines really, ''really'' like them. This is not as great as it sounds, because it also affects everyone's friend, The Computer. Who really, ''[[BerserkButton really]]'' doesn't enjoy being the thrall of a commie mutant traitor. So it employs special "machine empath detection" diagnostics to root out the traitor, and if caught, a machine empath can expect not only immediate termination, but also outright erasure of their clone template. Machine empaths lead a very brief existence.
** It's also the only power punished by "immediate termination", and coming from [[KillEmAll this game]], that's saying something.
*** One can only wonder (and shudder) at what Friend Computer would do with a genuine Communist who had this as his mutation. Dump thermonuclear hand grenades in the immediate area?

* This was split into the psychic powers "Cyberkinesis" and "Cyberpathy" in the Sorcerer supplement to the TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness game ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension''.
* In the TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness,
** Fan-supplement ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'', every PC is (or can be) one.
** ''TabletopGame/GeistTheSinEaters'' gives us the Industrial Key, which, when filtered through the right Manifestation, allows a Sin-Eater to gain control over a building and every device therein (Boneyard), install technology right into their body (Caul), understand just how a device works (Oracle), or manipulate a device from afar (Marionette). They do have a limitation, however; seeing as they derive their powers from the Underworld, they're better off dealing with "anachrotech," and take penalties when dealing with newer technologies. So, it's easier to hack a Model T than it is an iPhone.
** The Embassy to Machines in ''TabletopGame/PrincessTheHopeful''. Members of this Embassy never take penalties for trying to use unfamiliar technology, can automatically succeed on any roll to operate a machine by spending Willpower, can infuse a machine with Light to make it function more effectively, and more.
** Pretty much every nWoD splat, save Hunter, deals with this in some way. It's an animistic world, after all.

* TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} has a whole setting about this trope, by the name of ''[[TabletopGame/GURPSTechnomancer Technomancer]]''. ''Psionic Powers'' brings us Cyberpsi, which has similar effects, but doesn't use spells, leaning toward more of a GreenLanternRing approach.
* ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' offers a power called "Datalink" that allows communication with machines.
* In the third edition of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''' ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' setting, there were some [[GadgeteerGenius Artificers]] whose powers came from [[PsychicPowers Psionics]] rather than [[{{Magitek}} magic]], essentially making them this.
* In the TabletopGame/D20Modern setting Urban Arcana, a 2nd level Techno Mage gains a +2 Competence Bonus to any skill checks involving technology, and can use any technology even if untrained in the relevant skill. While it is called MachineEmpathy, this class and ability has more of a technopath feel.
* Unity from ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse''. Her deck relies on getting around her mechanical golem's restriction of being unplayable during her turns play phase by using her base power or equipment.

%%* One of the few scary villains in the usually quite funny ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters'' series is a child who is a Technopath ''and'' a {{Cyborg}}, who commands a {{Dystopia}}n future where the machines are at war with humankind.
* Shelke from ''VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus'' can perform Synaptic Net Dives, which basically give her this.

%%* [[BigBad Octalus Percy Defoe]] and [[LoveInterest Laurie Hemmings]] in ''VideoGame/ThePKGirl''. While PsychicPowers are uncommon in the setting, technopathy is ''extremely rare'' and the former... ''[[StalkerWithATestTube desires]]'' the latter for this reason.
%%* Introduced as a new research line to ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars 2'' in the ''End of Flesh'' expansion.
* In ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'', [[spoiler:Angel]] has this power due to [[spoiler:being a Siren. She is networked into every machine in Pandora and is essentially a living supercomputer.]]
* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'' has the ability to hack anything. ''Anything.'' Black out city blocks, mess with traffic lights, make individual machines activate, hack [=ATMs=], you name it, even stand-alone things like forklifts or cars. Sure, he uses a backdoor program and the city's universal free wi-fi to enable this, but there's essentially nothing electronic he can't bend to his will.
* Strike craft pilots of the playable Advent faction in ''VideoGame/SinsOfASolarEmpire'' control their fighters and bombers remotely using this ability.

* [[MouthOfSauron The Black Signal]] of ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' possesses this ability and uses it to the fullest possible extent in every single appearance: [[DoNotAdjustYourSet hijacking]] Masao Tanaka's emergency address, using Ricky Pagan's boom box to transmit a BreakingSpeech, and seizing control of every single Orochi drone, tank and HumongousMecha in the Manufactory are just a ''few'' of the things he gets up to. For good measure, he's even able to communicate with you by ''[[LeaningOnTheFourthWall hacking the game's lore]].'' [[spoiler: It's eventually revealed that he's actually a [[DigitizedHacker disembodied Filth-entity haunting the electronic systems of Tokyo]]; he can easily create a body of pure [[TheCorruption Filth]] for him to inhabit, but he prefers to work exclusively with tech.]]

* The ''Literature/MetroCityChronicles'' have a minor villain called Black Hat whose powers focus on cyber-telepathy and control.

* Samantha Harrison from ''Literature/{{Phaeton}}'', technically she is a machine herself but who cares when you can order the gun pointed at you head to dismantle itself.
* ''Literature/TheJournalEntries'' has people with a whole raft of psychic powers, including this one, called cyberpathy in this setting. It is also present reverse, with AIs that are telepathic with organics. There are also a whole series of artificial interfaces that produce equivalent results, from external headbands to multiple generations of implants.
* Wes Hickman from the ''Omega Universe'' can assume control of electronic devices and hack computers with his mind as well as project his consciousness into cyberspace.
* Hafidha Gates of the ''Literature/ShadowUnit'' can not only consciously connect to and control any nearby machine which contains computer chips, but she can also, without any conscious effort, act as a Wi-Fi access point or cell phone tower [[note]]she can combine these abilities to directly connect to the Internet with her mind, but she instead prefers to control a computer which is connected to Internet[[/note]]. This is in addition to and separate from a paranormal boost to her technical skills, making her one of the most skilled {{Techno Wizard}}s on the planet.

%%* Megavolt from ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' has this ability, as well. He's much more dangerous than other examples, since he's also a PsychoElectro.
* Nicolai Technus from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', whose name is a play on famous engineer Nikola Tesla. Technus has the power to possess and upgrade technology, which he uses to forge powerful weapons and battlesuits. Technus can also summon technology and bend it to his will to do whatever he says, even from afar. He commonly refers to himself in some form of "Technus! Ghost Master of Technology!" because of this.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', Megatron discovers that he can control Earth machines because so much technology has been reverse engineered from him over the last 50 years. Which is rather useful, as he was reduced to a head when he found this out.
** In the third season, Sari gains the ability to learn how to operate or repair any machine just by touching it: she describes it as the machines themselves simply telling her what they need.
** In the ''ComicBook/TransformersShatteredGlass'' continuity, Heatwave has the ability to control non-sentient machines by communicating with them telepathically. Though he's a bit quirky in that, while he's doing so, he talks to the machines as if they were actually alive and sentient.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'': Already a skilled hacker in his own right, Walter "Doc" Hartford's Series 5 implant cranks his technological affinity UpToEleven, to the point where he is effortlessly bossing around ancient alien computers.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', Willy Watt gained this ability after an accident involving a giant robot which he was controlling via a neural interface. The ability later morphs into MindOverMatter.

%%* The WWWYZZERDD from ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce''.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble'' added this to ComicBook/{{MODOK}}'s powerset.

* ''VideoGame/{{Temtem}}'' has the Digital type, which was created in a lab in Cipanku (a FantasyCounterpartCulture of Japan). Its tems generally look robotic, with features such as TronLines and GlowingEyesOfDoom, while its techniques involve computer terminology and data given physical form.

* [[ComicBook/{{Planetary}} The Drummer]] has nebulous powers related to "information flow", which apparently include sensing magic (the "cheat codes of the universe"), but he's usually employed as a super-hacker and living Electronic Counter-Measures device (disrupting security systems, monitoring or jamming enemy communications and such.) Oh, and [[CloudCuckooLander he's nuts.]]

%%* Nicolai Technus from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', whose name is a play on famous engineer Nikola Tesla.

* The now-deleted[[labelnote:*]]In short, the author threw a hissy-fit and demanded that all of his works be deleted from the site[[/labelnote]] but still well remembered [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP-808]] (a.k.a. Alice). An otherwise normal girl, her ability to communicate with machines is complicated by the fact that the machines consider her to be [[AGodAmI God]]. Fortunately an archived version exists [[http://web.archive.org/web/20100125115333/http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-808 here]].

* A minor character in ''Manga/BungouStrayDogs'' can control any electronic device within his field of view perfectly and at a speed multiple times faster than what can be achieved naturally, as long as he's not in physical contact with it. He also needs to be in a state of physical and mental comfort.

* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', Chisame's artifact allows a mental [[EverythingIsOnline internet link]].

* Satsuki in ''Manga/{{X1999}}''. When her super-powerful personal computer starts to get jealous, it's an issue.

** Jimmy Olsen of ComicBook/TheNew52 ''Comicbook/{{Earth 2}}'', known as Accountable, is able to access news feeds just by holding onto a smartphone for a few minutes.

* ''ComicBook/XMen''

* ''Comicbook/AvengersArena'' has [[spoiler: Apex, and her twin brother Tim who are technopaths.]]

* Livewire in ''Comicbook/{{Harbinger}}'', who has used her powers [[MundaneUtility to text and tweet at once]].

* The Iron Queen from ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' is the only known surviving user of the ancient art of Magitek, which allows her to control robotics and cybernetics (including ArtificialLimbs) through mystical powers. There seems to be a limit to her powers, though; she supposedly cannot control the implants of [[MachineWorship the Dark Legion]], for example (according to her, they're too complex for her to manipulate, despite being created by the same MadScientist that created the cybernetics of her other victims).

* Shortly after getting lightning power, Will from ''Comicbook/{{WITCH}}'' gains the ability to talk to machines. She finds out that the Computer and the Printer are [[CargoShip married]]. Also, her mobile is a prick.

* Shirley Fenette in Fanfic/JusticeSocietyOfJapan has a very powerful [[PowerIncontinence (and hard to control)]] variant of this power.

* ''Series/{{Heroes}}''.

* The eponymous character from the TV series ''[[Series/{{Jake20}} Jake 2.0]]'', although, while he can remotely hack into a computer to display certain information, he still needs to read it normally.

%%* [[BigBad Octalus Percy Defoe]] and [[LoveInterest Laurie Hemmings]] in VideoGame/ThePKGirl. While PsychicPowers are uncommon in the setting, technopathy is ''extremely rare'' and the former... ''[[StalkerWithATestTube desires]]'' the latter for this reason.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', [[spoiler:Angel]] has this power due to [[spoiler:being a Siren. She is networked into every machine in Pandora and is essentially a living supercomputer.]]

* In VideoGame/Prey2017, the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Technopaths]] are [[BossInMooksClothing large floating enemies]] that can take control of [[SentryGun Turrets]] and [[SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids Operators]].

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* ''WebComic/MagickChicks'': [[{{meganekko}} Sandi]] [[TheSmartGuy Mnemonic]] has the ability to [[http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/she_looks_out_for_us mentally project her very own i-Pad]], which she uses for storing, researching, and categorizing data. She's even talented enough that [[http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/forces_of_darkness she can project multiple holo-screens at once]], with each containing separate bits of information; including video feeds. Which is the reason. [[StudentCouncilPresident Faith]] chose her as her personal secretary.

* Shortly after getting lightning power, Will from ''Comicbook/{{WITCH}}'' gains the ability to talk to machines.
** And finds out that the Computer and the Printer are [[CargoShip married]]. Also, her mobile is a prick.

* Weisz Steiner from ''Manga/EdensZero'' has a form of [[MagicByAnyOtherName Ether Gear]] called Machina Maker that lets him create and remodel machines in an instant through physical contact. As a young man, he can use this power to repair broken machine parts, construct artificial limbs, transform weapons, and upgrade spaceships mid-flight. His skills as an older man are said to be on a whole other level, however; as [[RobotBuddy Happy]] can attest to, he can [[BrainUploading transfer living creatures' minds into mechanical bodies]] that are completely indistinguishable from their organic forms.

* In ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' Belldandy does this sort of thing all the time. Granted she is a literal goddess with power over all sorts of stuff, but she still ends up talking to machine spirits about as often as your average [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Techpriest]].

* Makoto from ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld''; this makes convincing a [[PersonOfMassDestruction Demon God]] [[RobotGirl Android]] to change sides (with [[{{Robosexual}} romance]]!) a tad easier.

* ''Fanfic/TriptychContinuum'': [[spoiler: This turns out to be part of Rachette's hybrid magic. By smearing a ''[[{{Magitek}} device]]'' with her blood, she telepathically links to that ''device'', enabling her to power, activate, and control it.]]

** Not more after Secret Invasion where basically reset his mind.

%%* Gwen Grayson from ''Film/SkyHigh2005'' is the TropeNamer, though the trope itself existed for some time beforehand, as evidenced by the many examples on this page.
* ''Sky High'' was a loose remake of a made for [=TV=] movie called ''Film/UpUpAndAway'' where Adam Marshall (AKA Silver Charge) can manipulate electromagnetic fields. He can, reportedly, use them to hack into computers. However, the one time we're shown him attempting, he gets overexcited and fries the machine. He is much better at causing LaserGuidedAmnesia in people.
* Naydenov in ''Film/WhiteTiger'' says tanks talk to him— active tanks tell him how to dodge shells, and wrecked tanks tell him how they met their ends.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Professor Menace can control his Wonder Woman duplicate robot remotely using his mind and when the thing is electrocuted and shorted out he gets a painful bit of feedback. He later controls three different robots this way, but seems to have sorted out the feedback problems.