History Main / PsychicChildren

* Bo Adams from ''Series/{{Believe}}'' possesses levitation, precognition, telekinesis and telepathy, among other powers.

* ''Anime/NightHeadGenesis'': Psychic abilities appear to manifest at birth. The brothers had trouble fitting in with other children as Naoya gets easily overwhelmed with being to hear everyone's thoughts (via touching people and objects). Naota is slightly more in control of his powers due to being older but he loses his temper quickly and has a penchant for shattering windows and roughing people up with his powers when upset.

* ''VideoGame/RedAlert3'': The Omega program took in thousands of "undesirable" children and tested them for psychic potential, resulting in the Empire's psychic commando Yuriko being cloned over and over (in a less-powerful version) to augment their forces.

** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' has a young girl named Ace who's had [[MasterOfIllusion perception-altering]], [[MindRape mentally destructive]] psychic powers since infancy. Eventually, her powers gets stronger to the point of [[RealityWarper altering the world itself]], but also cause a fatal brain aneurysm.

These kids are also often used for secret organizations, government agencies, and other groups because of their powers. They can also might be twins and have TwinTelepathy, along with being CreepyTwins.

* Nearly ever esper encountered in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' and ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'' is a teenager or younger. This is perhaps justified by natural born espers being rare, and all the children in Academy City are students taking part in an esper development program.

* ''VideoGame/ExtrapowerAttackOfDarkforce'' has [[AwesomeButTemporary Emerald]] of the PMEC team and Sonar of [[PrivateMilitaryContractors SPICA]], who seems to share a similar origin as Emerald. Sonar is SPICA's resident telepath and uses her powers to detect biological signatures. Emerald is [[MacGuffinSuperPerson so powerful]] that she actually [[DistressedDamsel becomes targeted]] by the Dark Force Army, who are seeking out items of magical power as part of their invasion of the Earth.

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* ''Manga/DragonBall'': Chaouzu, who has the appearance of somewhere between a ChineseVampire and a baby, has [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]], though since his appearance remains constant over time, he might not be a child even when we first saw him.

* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'': Yellow, who can read the minds of Pokemon and has limited telekinesis. She is the youngest of the first-generation protagonists.
* Nearly ever esper encountered in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' and ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun '' is a teenager or younger. This is perhaps justified by natural born espers being rare, and all the children in Academy City are students taking part in an esper development program.

* ''Manga/MaiThePsychicGirl''. Mai Kuju is a 14-year-old girl with powerful psychic abilities. The Wisdom Alliance is a secret organization that wants to control the world. They already control four other psychic children and want to add Mai to their collection.
* Sabrina in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime was this trope for a while. The anime showed her developing her powers very young, around five or six years old. There's quite a creepy subplot involving her dolls and toys...
* Feature prominently in ''Manga/{{Akira}}'', including the title character. Psychic powers in this setting are at least partially drug-induced, and appear to be less destructive to pre-pubescents, which is why the secret government agency developing them prefers to use children as test subjects.
* Also by Creator/KatsuhiroOtomo, Etsuko from ''Manga/{{Domu}}'', who may or may not be related to the above.
* Pretty much every ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' universe, with the exceptions of ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'', ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'' and ''Anime/TurnAGundam'' prominently feature many youngsters with psychic powers of one kind or another, most of whom end up getting turned into as ChildSoldiers because of them.
* Hitomi from ''Anime/PuniPuniPoemi'' is a 3 year old who supposedly has the power to predict the future. Unfortunately, she only "predicts" things that are obviously happening right in front of her. However, one scene where she senses that Poemi is on a rampage implies that her power is not prediction, but an ability to see things that are happening in other places.
* Toni and Mika from ''Manga/MiracleGirls'' are identical twins with the ability to teleport and communicate telepathically.
* The titular character of ''[[{{Manga/ION}} I-O-N]]'' gains the powers of telekinesis and levitation when she touches a strange blue stone.
* The titular heroine of ''Manga/PsychoTraderChinami'' is a young girl who posses a psychic blast power, the ability to create barriers and develops a teleportation ability during the final battle. She can't control her powers, however, and often causes explosions.
* The protagonists of ''Literature/FromTheNewWorld'' are children with the power of telekinesis.
* ''Anime/EsperMami'' is about an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent who one day manifests supernatural powers, including teleportation, telepathy, and telekinesis.
* Yuuki of ''Manga/FukaiNemuriNoHana'' is a teenager who carries the disturbing power of foresight in her dreams.
* In ''Manga/ThouShaltNotDie'', the protagonists are high school students with psychic powers who are forced to use their powers as ChildSoldiers.
* In ''Manga/OshieteNanoka'', Nanoka discovers that she has the ability to hear other people's thoughts.
* In ''Manga/{{Psyren}}'', [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent high schoolers Hiryuu and Ageha]] develop psychic powers after being exposed to Psyren's atmosphere.
* Kusuo Saiki of ''Manga/TheDisastrousLifeOfSaikiK'' is a high-school student with every psychic power imaginable. [[BlessedWithSuck He's less than happy about it]].
* In ''Manga/CodeNameWaCharmer'', Naomi, Makoto, Yuji, and Kaede all have psychic powers of some sort and make up the Supernatural Phenomenon Research Group of their school.
* One-shot character Satori from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' possesses the ability to read minds, and has a habit of announcing what a person is thinking in order to cause trouble. He's based on a yokai of the same name.
* ''Anime/NightHeadGenesis'': Psychic abilities appear to manifest at birth. The brothers had trouble fitting in with other children as Naoya gets easily overwhelmed with being to hear everyone's thoughts (via touching people and objects). Naota is slightly more in control of his powers due to being older but he loses his temper quickly and has a penchant for shattering windows and roughing people up with his powers when upset.

* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
** Franklin Richards, son of Reed and Sue of the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'', exhibited full-on GooGooGodlike psychic powers from early childhood.
** ''ComicBook/XMen'': Jean Grey's mutant psionic abilities first manifested when she was a child.
** The Stepford Cuckoos were an attempt by the Weapon Plus Program and a sentient bacterial life form (ItMakesSenseInContext) to breed an army of creepy psychic children to capture the Phoenix Force and wipe out all mutants.
* Liana from ''ComicBook/ADistantSoil'' falls under this trope. Though all Ovanans (and half-Ovanans like her and Jason) have psychic powers, she's an avatar and Jason is a disruptor, our two MOST powerful powers. Seren, the current avatar, is not a child, but is certainly very childlike.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'': The sons of Ares from one story arc are a group of creepy kids who were quickly aged up from infancy and use their mental abilities to turn the people around them against each other.

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'': Harry, Jean, and [[spoiler: Maddie's]] powers all manifested in early childhood. In the former case, it mixed up with his accidental magic, and they didn't properly find their way out until he was 13. In Jean's case, they activated at the age of six and were felt across the globe, she was that strong, and spent the rest of her childhood working out how to control them. In the last case, she was raised as a LivingWeapon.
* ''Fanfic/KnowThyselfThePrelude'': Before he was unplugged, at only nine-years-old, Harry could sense the general presence of Agents, had a feeling of Trinity's status as a redpill, somehow manages to make him and Trinity invisible to agents looking for her and has had multiple experiences that imply to him that the Matrix is a false reality.

* Norman Babcock from ''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman'', given he is a [[ISeeDeadPeople medium]].

* In the film ''Film/MinorityReport'', three psychic children are "harnessed" to foresee and prevent crimes; chief among the kids is a girl who saw through a specific deception (and instrumental in the plot)
* ''Film/Constantine2005'': The title character and Isabel and Angela Dodson all first displayed their psychic abilities as children. Unfortunately, these abilities helped them to see the half-demons infesting the Earth, resulting in both Constantine and Isabel being forced to undergo psychiatric treatment- Isabel later committing suicide.
* Other than Neo, the Potentials from ''Film/TheMatrix'' all seem to be children. Their {{Technopath}}y isn't strictly a "psychic" power [[spoiler:until the sequel, when Neo gains the ability to affect machines even when unplugged]], but their ability to manipulate the fabric of the Matrix is accorded similar mystical significance.
* In the film ''Film/TheBlackPhone'', the main character’s younger sister has a history of prophetic visions (inherited from her mother), which become useful when her brother is abducted by a serial killer.

* Anthony from Jerome Bixby's short story ''Literature/ItsAGoodLife'' is only three years old and has [[RealityWarper complete control of everything]].
* In the ''Literature/MaximumRide'' series, the youngest member of the group (Angel, at only six) can read minds, often by accident. Later, she also gains the abilities of [[spoiler:breathing underwater and mind control]].

** ''Literature/TheMidwichCuckoos'' which was later filmed (more than once) as ''Village of the Damned'' had the psychic creepy AffablyEvil children as the whole point of its plot.
** ''Literature/TheChrysalids'' had telepathic but otherwise normal children growing up in a community that hated and feared any kind of "deviation" from the norm.
* ''Literature/TheWitchesOfKarres'' centers on three heavily psychic/magical children, sisters, from the planet Karres. The whole population of Karres are witches, but these three, and especially ten-year-old Goth, are the ones we see most of.

* The Children of the Lens, in the ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'' series. Their parents were the two most powerfully psionic humans in Civilization, their godparents were three StarfishAliens who were the most powerfully psionic non-humans in Civilization, and Kit and his sisters still left them feeling as confused as a hen who had hatched a brood of ducklings.

* ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'' starred a bright young girl who manifested psychic powers because her intelligence was being suppressed by her horrible parents who tried to keep her as dumb as possible. Her powers fade in the end when she's finally able to challenge herself academically.

* Olivia Dunham from ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' was this as a child, although only after being treated with a pharmaceutical called Cortexiphane.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', it is implied that River had telepathic abilities at a young age, and that this was why [[SchoolForScheming the Academy]] "recruited" her in her early teens.

** Bran Stark. It comes with being a Warg.

** Like Bran, Jojen is a greenseer. But not a warg.
* Eleven/Jane from ''Series/StrangerThings''. Literally the entire plot of the first season revolves around either her escape or the disappearance of her non-psychic counterpart [[DistressedDude Will Byers]]. Her powers were invoked by the government, who kidnapped children and experimented on them so that they'd develop psychic powers. Kali is another such example of this. In subsequent seasons, [[spoiler: Will's experiences in the [[DarkWorld Upside Down]] have given him a psychic connection with the [[EldritchAbomination Mind Flayer]].]]
* Bo Adams from ''Series/{{Believe}}'' possesses levitation, precognition, telekinesis and telepathy, among other powers.
* Pre-Island flashbacks on ''Series/{{Lost}}'' implied that Walt Lloyd had nascent psychic powers, and his stepfather feared him for this reason. Wound up becoming an AbortedArc when he and Michael were written out of the show.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}''. The villain organization PSI (Parapsychologial Studies Institute) kidnaps children with psychic powers and brainwashes them into loyal minions.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}''. Yoon, the iconic [[ElementalPowers kineticist]] is a pyrokinetic preteen.

* ''[[VideoGame/ExtrapowerAttackOfDarkforce EXTRAPOWER Attack of Darkforce]]'' has [[AwesomeButTemporary Emerald]] of the PMEC team and Sonar of [[PrivateMilitaryCompany SPICA]], who seems to share a similar origin as Emerald. Sonar is SPICA's resident telepath and uses her powers to detect biological signatures. Emerald is [[MacGuffinSuperPerson so powerful]] that she actually [[DistressedDamsel becomes targeted]] by the Dark Force Army, who are seeking out items of magical power as part of their invasion of the Earth.
* ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'' only plays this straight with Mossdeep Gym Leaders Tate and Liza, who look like young children (complete with TwinTelepathy). And ''maybe'' Caitlin, depending on which generation you're playing. All the other prominent Psychic-type trainers (eg. Sabrina, Will, Lucian, as well as the Psychic trainer class) are at least in their twenties.
** Some Psychic-type Pokemon, such as Mime Jr, Smoochum, Ralts, Kirlia, Gothita, and Gothorita actually resemble children.
* In the ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER}}'' trilogy, the protagonists Ninten, Ness, and Lucas along with some of the other main characters are all {{Kid Hero}}s with psychic powers called PK or PSI in their universe.
* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' is set in a summer camp full of children with psychic abilities, with the explicit intent of training them to control their powers and finding candidates to become agents for the eponymous organization. ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'' features some older kids who are in the Psychonauts' intern program.
* In ''VideoGame/{{FEAR}}'', Alma and all [[spoiler: three]] of her children are powerful psychics. In the second game, there is an elementary school founded by [[MegaCorp Armacham]] that covertly operates a program to both detect and induce psychic abilities in elementary school children. This was so ethically questionable that [[spoiler: the school's personnel and all its students were on the list of "evidence" to be [[WouldHurtAChild destroyed]] by Armacham's Black Ops troops]] once the Fairport incident blew up in everyone's faces.
* The Zener Children of ''VideoGame/SecondSight'' are the primary (unwilling) research subjects for a program attempting to copy their abilities into adult {{super soldier}}s. However, adults can spontaneously develop psychic powers as well, as is the case with the main character.
* Due to being heir to the leadership of [[AncientConspiracy the First Sons]], Alden Tate of ''VideoGame/{{InFAMOUS}}'' unlocked his telekinetic powers as a child, unlike most of the other Conduits in the game.

* Silver the Hedgehog from the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog''-series is an expert [[MindOverMatter psychokinetic]] at 14 years old. That's young [[ThereAreNoAdults even by Sonic-standards]].
* Despite being only four years of age, Jung of ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' is one of the most powerful psychics in the game. Among other things, he's capable of sensing events all over Tokyo, reading thoughts quicker than he can speak, warding off roaming monsters by will alone, taking characters on [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind a journey to the Collective Unconsciousness]], and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick forcing any unwelcome visitors to]] [[PsychicAssistedSuicide forget how to breathe]]. Also, he has [[MyBrainIsBig an extremely swollen-looking skull]] that he's a little bit sensitive about.
* One of the classes of invader in ''[[VideoGame/{{Deception}} Tecmo's Deception]]'' is the Psychic, which is made up of young girls who can telekinetically throw knives at you.
* The titular ''VideoGame/FranBow'' [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane may or may not be this]] - it's never made clear.
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has The Forecaster, a kid living in the 188 Trading Post who can be paid to give ominous "forecasts" about the future, ranging from the climax to the player's personal fate.

* ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'': Willis claims he can sense the 'pulses' of others, and would seem to possess other senses and abilities outside the range of human perception.
* ''Webcomic/TheBullysBully'': The unnamed heroine appears to be able to sense bullying before it happens, so she can be there to try to prevent it.

* Generator of the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse''. She's the youngest member of Team Kimba and looks like she's about ten. Her psychokinesis manifests as the ability to cast a psychic copy of herself into pretty much anything that's not too big. In the dreaded Dark Phase holographic simulation in "Ayla and the MadScientist" she takes out more power armor foes than [[PersonOfMassDestruction Tennyo]].
* Edgar and Eva, aka ''Website/TheZimmerTwins'', share these powers with their pet cat.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' has a young girl named Ace who's had [[MasterOfIllusion perception-altering]], [[MindRape mentally destructive]] psychic powers since infancy. Eventually her power gets stronger, to the point of [[RealityWarper altering the world itself]], but also cause a fatal brain aneurysm.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode "Mind Games", a young girl named Tamara is kidnapped from her family by group of psychics called "The Brain Trust" because she's a ''very'' powerful pyschic whom they want to join their ranks. She's so powerful that she pretty much curbstomps them on her own once she starts actually fighting back.
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* The protagonists of ''LightNovel/FromTheNewWorld'' are children with the power of telekinesis.

* Eleven/Jane from ''Series/{{Stranger Things}}''. Literally the entire plot of the first season revolves around either her escape or the disappearance of her non-psychic counterpart [[DistressedDude Will Byers]]. Her powers were invoked by the government, who kidnapped children and experimented on them so that they'd develop psychic powers. Kali is another such example of this. In subsequent seasons, [[spoiler: Will's experiences in the [[DarkWorld Upside Down]] have given him a psychic connection with the [[EldritchAbomination Mind Flayer]].]]

* Eleven from ''Series/{{Stranger Things}}''. Literally the entire plot of the first season revolves around either her escape or the disappearance of her non-psychic counterpart [[DistressedDude Will Byers]]. In subsequent seasons, [[spoiler: Will's experiences in the [[DarkWorld Upside Down]] have given him a psychic connection with the [[EldritchAbomination Mind Flayer]].]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' is set in a summer camp full of children with psychic abilities, with the explicit intent of training them to control their powers and finding candidates to become agents for the eponymous organization. ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts 2}}'' features some older kids who are in the Psychonauts' intern program.

* In ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral Fire Emblem: Thracia 776]]'', a pre-teen OracularUrchin named Sara can hear the thoughts of whichever person has been cursed by the cursed "Stone" spell tome, as she is the key to counteract it (only if she possessed the National Treasure "Kya" staff). In fact, she introduces herself to Leif by stating that she heard a voice pleading for help and telling her to join him: the voice belongs to [[spoiler: Leif's ParentalSubstitute Eyvel, who's been turned into stone]].

* ''Videogame/FalloutNewVegas'' has The Forecaster, a kid living in the 188 Trading Post who can be paid to give ominous "forecasts" about the future, ranging from the climax to the player's personal fate.

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* ''Webcomic/{{Freakangels}}'': Most of the action takes place long after they've reached adulthood, but the main cast used to be this and appear as such in flashbacks. They are in fact very much ''Literature/TheMidwichCuckoos'' [[RecycledInSpace as cynical, disaffected Millenials]]... during TheApunkalypse. This being a Creator/WarrenEllis work, it just gets weirder from there.

* In the MarvelUniverse:
** Franklin Richards, son of Reed and Sue of the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' exhibited full-on GooGooGodlike psychic powers from early childhood.
** [[ComicBook/XMen Jean Grey's]] mutant psionic abilities first manifested when she was a child.

* ''Film/{{Constantine}}'': The title character and Isabel and Angela Dodson all first displayed their psychic abilities as children. Unfortunately, these abilities helped them to see the half-demons infesting the Earth, resulting in both Constantine and Isabel being forced to undergo psychiatric treatment- Isabel later committing suicide.

* 14-year-old Shigeo "Mob" Kageyama of ''Manga/MobPsycho100'' possesses telekinesis, can make psychic barriers and imitate any ability he sees his opponents perform. Other child espers exist alongside him and showcase a variety of special abilities.

* The unnamed heroine of ''Webcomic/TheBullysBully'' appears to be able to sense bullying before it happens, so she can be there to try to prevent it.

* Willis of ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'' claims he can sense the 'pulses' of others, and would seem to possess other senses and abilities outside the range of human perception.
* In ''Webcomic/MousouTelepathy'', Aya is a high-school student who possesses the power of {{Telepathy}}.

* ''Manga/DragonBall'': Chaouzu, who has the appearance of somewhere between a ChineseVampire and a baby is a played straight example of this, though since his appearance remains constant over time, he might not be a child in a literal sense.