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** In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder In Throes of Increasing Wonder...]]", Lestat de Lioncourt closes the gates with telekinesis to prevent the priest from escaping.
** In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E7TheThingLayStill The Thing Lay Still]]", Lestat (who's in a different room and cannot see the front door from where he's standing) shuts his eyes and concentrates to remove the doorknob so that his mistress Antoinette Brown can enter his townhouse.

** In [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder the series premiere]], Lestat de Lioncourt closes the gates with telekinesis to prevent the priest from escaping.
** In [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E7TheThingLayStill the Season 1 finale]], Lestat (who's in a different room and cannot see the front door from where he's standing) shuts his eyes and concentrates to remove the doorknob so that his mistress Antoinette Brown can enter his townhouse.

** In the Season 1 finale, Lestat (who's in a different room and cannot see the front door from where he's standing) shuts his eyes and concentrates to remove the doorknob so that his mistress Antoinette Brown can enter his townhouse.

** In the series premiere, Lestat de Lioncourt closes the gates with telekinesis to prevent the priest from escaping.

** Sylar also managed to hold onto telekinesis after he [[spoiler: recovered from the shanti virus. When he recovered, he was only able to retain telekinesis and his original power of intuitive aptitude.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Psychic-type Pokémon usually have this power. Some humans do as well.
** [[PhysicalGod Mewtwo]] is shown to be able to cause a storm with his mind's power in the first movie.

* Taylor of the ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Acceleration}}'' can freely modify the vector value of almost anything, much like Accelerator of ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex''.
* This is Psion's superpower in ''Fanfic/AnAmericanSuperheroInJapan''. He is [[PowerLevels strong enough to toss cars around]], and also uses it to fly.
%%zce* [[spoiler:Haruhi]] takes on this in ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'' in order to have fun with supernatural powers without causing total havoc.
* The title character of ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' as well as all Psyches have telekinetic abilities.
* Father Leo/Ultraman Lugeno in ''Ultraman Moedari'' spams telekinetic powers all the time. Lunaram and Finem are lesser examples.
* Alex in ''Fanfic/UltramanOrion'' uses telekinesis to some extent.
* One key point in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic[=/=]VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' {{crossover}} fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Stardust|Arad}}'' is that Twilight's telekinetic powers would be hard for XCOM to combat if she was on the other side.
* ''Fanfic/TheSecretReturnOfAlexMack'': This is Alex's most notable power. She's limited to approximately two hundred pounds of force (although that gradually improves with practice), but she can divide that force over multiple objects at once, and exert very fine control, enough to easily turn screws and safely pinch carotid arteries shut. Furthermore, since she herself weighs quite a bit less than two hundred pounds, she can fly at over 80 miles an hour, or at slower speeds with enough force left over to work or fight.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''[=/=]''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' {{crossover}} fanfic ''Fanfic/AShadowOfTheTitans'', the Rooster talisman becomes fused into Jade's body, giving her 'natural' telekinesis.
* Rune from the ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/ATaleOfTransmigration'' is telekinetic.
** Oracle is considered the world's strongest and a Mirror Cape to Simurgh by virtue of catching a building she threw and then ''beating'' her with it.
* In the ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Atonement}}'', a traumatic event triggers Madison's telekinesis powers, upon which she renames herself Tether.
** Specifically, her power allows her to attach intangible "lines" between any two (nonliving) objects, and pull them together or push them apart at will. Heavy objects or capes with SuperStrength are partially immune to being pushed and pulled, however.
* Ren kidnaps Hanyuu via telekinesis in the ''Manga/InuYasha'' fanfic ''Fanfic/BeyondTomorrow''.
* ''Fanfic/CaseySteele'': Usually shortened from "Telekinesis" to "TK". Power and finesse are usually mutually exclusive -- you can either lift a lot of mass or handle small objects -- and being able to do both is considered very impressive.

* This is the "default mode" of [[spoiler:Lisa Vanette]]'s awakened mage gift in the ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' fanfic ''[[Fanfic/DrunkardsWalk Drunkard's Walk II: Robot's Rules of Order]]''
* The ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries''[=/=]''Franchise/MassEffect'' fanfic ''Fanfic/EaglesFall'' faces humanity against telekinetic biotics the Asari.
* ''Fanfic/ElementalsOfHarmony'': Unicorns have telekinesis, which they usually apply in MundaneUtility to carry things, like in [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/1048/3/elementals-of-harmony/even-on-the-battlefield "Even on the Battlefield"]], where Address Unknown uses it to hold letters.
* Most people skilled with Ki manipulation in the ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheFallOfLordFrieza'' have at least a little, but Frieza trained his telekinetic powers into a deadly weapon. [[spoiler: In his sixth form, he can casually smash gigantic icebergs together with little strain.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''[=/=]''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' {{crossover}} fanfic ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestria'', Littlepip's only magic is telekinesis, which all unicorns can do, but the sheer level of her capability is staggering; during The Pit fight, she manages to levitate herself, an ally, a lance and ''several gallons of toxic goo'', the last being stretched out to cloak them from snipers. And then she decides to pick a lock, without tools, by grabbing the tumblers from inside. ''And succeeds''. She's extremely taxed by the feat but it would probably be flat-out impossible for any other pony short of Celestia or Luna. (Admittedly she had spent several traits on this.)
* The Kinetics in the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Forward}}'' are telekinetics.
* Chimei in the fanfic ''Fanfic/FutariWaPrettyCureDragon''. She uses it on Hiroshi at least once in episode 9, in a ShoutOut to a scene in episode 6 of ''Manga/ShugoChara'' where one of Amu's Charas forces her to dance using a similar form of telekinesis.
* The raven Sage is a telekinetic in the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' fanfic ''Fanfic/FutureGenerations''.
* Noa from ''Fanfic/HardBeingPure'' has a telekinetic aura around her that automatically cleans dust and other impurities. When she focuses on something, she can lift somewhere around a full backpack.
* In the ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Intrepid}}'', Rune (Cassie) gained telekinesis, triggered by being locked in solitary and wanting to get out, and can move non-living things she touches with her mind.
--> '''Cassie:''' The walls kept getting smaller and I wanted out. I wanted the walls to stop shrinking. I wanted the walls to get out of my way. I wanted the walls to move. ''So they did.'' The walls moved because I wanted them to. They moved because I told them to, and then I got out.
%%zce* One of Sevag's powers in the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' fanfic ''FanficJourneyIntoDarkness''.
* In the ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' [[ParodyFic parody]] fanfic ''Fanfic/JustTheBestMarySueEver'', Fellaurora sends a statue flying across the room with her mind.
* One of psychic Franchise/{{Pokemon}} N's powers in ''Fanfic/NaturalLiberated'' is telekinesis. Sebrina, Reshiram, and Zekrom have it as well.
* In ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'', this is how [[spoiler:Evetta]] keeps [[spoiler:her]] hands clean when maiming, [[PsychicStrangle strangling]] and mangling. Unlike typical examples, it is [[PlayedForHorror portrayed as disturbing]] due to a rare {{Aversion}} of JustHitHim[[note]]the victims on the receiving end of whatever power she holds are ''not'' tossed around in the slightest[[/note]]. Moreover, this fanfic is supposed to be a standard DarkFantasy setting, where there should be elements like swords and magic, not people who move stuff with their mind. Just the fact that [[spoiler:even the main EldritchAbomination is not shown to possess this power, and yet this [[AnimateInanimateObject animated porcelain doll]] is [[NothingIsScarier somehow]] capable of crushing someone without eye contact or lifting a finger]] is clearly shown as unexpected and very, very ''[[LovecraftianSuperpower wrong]]''.
* Benny of the ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/PisayHeroes'' has telekinesis.
* In the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Presets}}'', [[spoiler: Matthias's wife]] is a Reader who happens to be telekinetic. But in order for [[spoiler: her]] to do anything, [[spoiler: she]] must expend the same amount of mental energy it would take to do the task physically. So anything more than a windstorm is generally impossible.
* Each Cure's powers in ''Fanfic/PrettyCureTransientCrossNEWTON'' is based around an area of physics; Kaneda manipulates "Motion".
* All shinigami in the ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' AlternateUniverseFic ''Fanfic/ProjectTatterdemalion'' have telekinesis.
** Ryuuken is forced to reveal his psychokinetic Quincy powers as a saving throw after the attempt to destroy the mass transporter nearly fails.
* Shepard faces off against the powerful biotic telekinetic Wrex in the ''VideoGame/MassEffect''[=/=]''VideoGame/{{XCOM}}'' {{crossover}} fanfic ''Fanfic/PsiEffect''.
* Finn gets telekinesis after the MassSuperEmpoweringEvent in ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' fanfic ''Fanfic/RedLightning''.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' fanfic ''Fanfic/ReflectionsLostOnADarkRoad'', Raven initially has her full telekinetic powers from the series, but then has them drained so much that they become near useless.
* One of the tests Jumba has Experiment 419 perform in the ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' fanfic ''[[Fanfic/StarlightSeries Alpha and Omega]]'' is to see if she has levitation powers, as that was one of the things he'd been planning on working on before his [[TraumaInducedAmnesia accident]].
%%zce* Socharis, and later Enigma in the ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage'' fanfic ''[[Fanfic/StreetsOfRageSaga Behind the World]]''.
%%zce** Also [[spoiler: Blaze]], post-''[[Fanfic/StreetsOfRageSaga The New Syndicate]]''.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Swordstorm}}'', Blackblade has a unique ability to levitate any object. He is a bat pony and not a {{unicorn}}, so he isn't using unicorn magic. Whether or not it is "considered" magic, is unknown.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''[=/=]''WesternAnimation/ReignStorm'' {{crossover}} fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Harmless}}'' Poindexter has telekinesis over everything in Casper High while he is on the grounds.
* ''Fanfic/SteelSoulSaga'': ''Steel Soul'': {{Unicorn}} telekinesis, cast through their horns, for the MundaneUtility of moving things around.
* ''Fanfic/SunsplitSaga'': How Twilight mainly moves things about, like "[levitating the journal] away from [Sunburst's] hoof, writing frantically on the page."
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama''[=/=]''[[VideoGame/BioShock1 BioShock]]'' {{crossover}} fanfic ''Fanfic/TotalDramaRaptured'', as of chapter 25, Telekinesis is part of the group's current plasmids. [[spoiler: Unlike the game, Steinmann has this power as well]].
* ''Fanfic/TriptychContinuum'': Part of {{Unicorn}} magic, usually used for MundaneUtility like carrying things and putting food into their mouths.
* ''Fanfic/{{Windfall}}'': The telekinesis magic of all {{unicorn}}s can be used for MundaneUtility, such as catching things from midair, or adjusting cravats.
* [[Music/TheBeatles Ringo]] in ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached''. Extraordinarily powerful, inasmuch as, by using his TK in conjunction with his [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling mindsight]], he has incredibly precise control and can reach at least a hundred miles with it. It does not tire him out to use it. His upper level of strength is not known, but he can toss people around and move them very rapidly. One limitation he has is that he must constantly concentrate on an item to keep it moving, and his concentration fails after 5-7 seconds, or if he's terrified, or if he's being jounced around. Still, he can do a lot in 5-7 seconds.
** Isn't it a good thing he's an ActualPacifist?

* ''Fanfic/{{Adjacency}}'': Part of {{Unicorn}} magic, usually used for MundaneUtility like flipping book pages.

* Accelerator in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' can manipulate the vectors of [[SwissArmySuperpower almost anything imaginable]]. This can effect the direction of objects with mass, but also phenomena like ultraviolet radiation or electrochemical signals in a brain's neurons.

* Asagami Fujino in the third ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' book/movie can do a very specific form; she can bend things. It doesn't sound like much until you add in the fact that she can do this to anything she thinks is remotely bendable -- in particular, ''human limbs''. At the end of her story as she is cornered by Shiki, [[spoiler:she gets a DesperationAttack upgrade in the form of boosted power and [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling clairvoyance]], which removes her one weakness -- having to actually [[NoEyeInMagic see the thing in order to bend it]]. Asagami to suspension bridge: '''''BEND!!!!!!]]'''''.

* Taylor of the ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Acceleration}}'' can freely modify the vector value of almost anything, much like Accelerator of ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex''.

** In "The Choice", Aggie Travers' telekinetic powers begin to develop when she is about ten. They typically manifest when she is angry or upset, most often when other children make fun of her. Her school suspends her as a result of the numerous injuries to these children which Aggie denies causing. Unsure of how to handle their troubled daughter, her parents Joe and Leslie hire a nanny named Karen Ross. What they don't realize is that Karen was sent by a secret organisation of women who possess the same telepathic powers, which diminish as they grow older. Karen is able to teach Aggie to channel and control her powers.
** In "Monster", the US government is conducting experiments with people possessing telekinetic powers, whom they employ to assassinate foreign leaders who pose a threat to the United States and its interests.
** In "The Shroud", Marie Wells is impregnated with a [[CloneJesus clone]] of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} created using samples taken from the ShroudOfTurin. After studying the clone's DNA, Dr. Gail Cowlings compares it to that of a man who displayed telekinetic powers on a small scale. She theorizes that the original Jesus was a one in ten billion genetic aberration whose powers were seen as supernatural in ancient times, which led to him being considered the Son of Main/{{God}}. Reverend Thomas Tilford rejects the notion, proclaiming that it was and is nothing less than a miracle. While still in her womb, Marie's unborn son is able to move the toys in his nursery so that they surround his mother.
** In "Revival", Luke possesses the power of telekinesis thanks to an advanced piece of technology disguised as a [[Literature/TheBible Bible]]. He uses it to take Sheriff O'Brien's gun and shoot him with it in an attempt to frame Ezra Burnham for murder.

* In ''Series/RedDwarf'', a holovirus gives Rimmer telekinetic powers.

* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "Nightmare", Max Miller, one of Azazel's special children, could lift objects with his mind. Demons and angels have this power too. In the later seasons, Sam and Dean spend a lot of time being slammed into walls because of it, especially when the guy doing the slamming is Crowley.

* ''Series/MayfairWitches'': Rowan learns she is capable of telekinesis by unwittingly causing an aneurysm through rupturing her boss's artery, seeing right inside his brain as she does so. It also makes her realize she'd earlier caused a girl whom she fought with in her childhood to have a seizure this way as well.

** In the Season 1 finale, Lestat (who's in a different room and cannot see the front door from where he's standing) shuts his eyes and concentrates to remove the doorknob so that Antoinette Brown can enter his townhouse.

* ''Series/MayfairWitches'': Rowan learns she is capable of telekinesis by unwittingly causing an aneurysm through rupturing her boss's artery, seeing right inside his brain as she does so. It makes her also realize she'd earlier caused a girl whom she fought with in her childhood to have a seizure this way as well.

* ''Series/MayfairWitches'': Rowan learns she is capable of telekinesis by unwittingly causing a fatal aneurysm through rupturing her boss's artery, seeing right inside his brain as she does so. It makes her also realize she'd earlier caused a girl whom she fought with in her childhood to have a seizure this way as well.

* Lifter and Olga from ''ComicBook/StrikeforceMorituri'' had this power.

* [[spoiler:Haruhi]] takes on this in ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'' in order to have fun with supernatural powers without causing total havoc.

* One of Sevag's powers in the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' fanfic ''Fanfic/JourneyIntoDarkness''.

* In ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'', this is how [[spoiler:Evetta]] keeps [[spoiler:her]] hands clean when maiming, [[PsychicStrangle strangling]] and mangling. Unlike typical examples, however, it is [[PlayedForHorror portrayed as disturbing]] due to a rare {{Aversion}} of JustHitHim[[note]]the victims on the receiving end of whatever power she holds are ''not'' tossed around in the slightest[[/note]]. Moreover, this fanfic is supposed to be a standard DarkFantasy setting, where there should be elements like swords and magic, not people who move stuff with their mind. Just the fact that [[spoiler:even the main EldritchAbomination is not shown to possess this power, and yet this [[AnimateInanimateObject animated porcelain doll]] is [[NothingIsScarier somehow]] capable of crushing someone without eye contact or lifting a finger]] is clearly shown as unexpected and very, very ''[[LovecraftianSuperpower wrong]]''.

* Socharis, and later Enigma in the ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage'' fanfic ''[[Fanfic/StreetsOfRageSaga Behind the World]]''.
** Also [[spoiler: Blaze]], post-''[[Fanfic/StreetsOfRageSaga The New Syndicate]]''.

* Shiki from ''Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld'' has the Float Float Fruit, which allows him make objects float. What crosses him into this trope from GravityMaster is that he’s able shape the objects he’s touched with his mind, creating lions made out of earth to crush Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Chopper, and Usopp. When Luffy defeats him, the things that were kept floating with his mind fall into the sea.
** Trafalgar Law has his "Tact" technique, which allows him to levitate stuff inside his space-warping Room.

** Quite a few of the Trolls have some form of PsychicPowers, but Sollux and Aradia are the only ones with telekinesis. Both of them prefer to use their abilities to fight rather than allocating a specific weapon to their [[WeaponOfChoice Strife Specibus]].

* Maou in ''LightNovel/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'' can use telekinesis among other abilities (with him being the dark lord and all). He used it to stop a bridge from collapsing on Chiho and Emi.

* ''LightNovel/FromTheNewWorld'' (aka ''Shin Sekai Yori'') lives and breathes this trope.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation''

Being a {{Psychic Power|s}}, 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 PsychicNosebleed or even passing out, and it is even possible to die due to the effort.

* Creator/AnneMcCaffrey's ''[[Literature/TowerAndTheHive Talents]]'' series has telekinetics so powerful they can fold space to {{teleport|ation}} mass over light-years, thus making them the invaluable cornerstone of an interstellar civilization. They require outside energy sources to power their higher-grade uses of this ability, but [[SoLastSeason that requirement gets de-emphasized with each book in the series and each generation of Talents]] to the point where it's practically a MagicFeather.

* In Christopher Stasheff's ''Literature/WarlockOfGramarye'' series, all the [[GenderRestrictedAbility female witches]] on Gramarye have telekinesis (their male counterparts have {{flight}} and {{teleportation}} instead).

* The mini-playfield in ''Pinball/TheTwilightZone'', where the player uses flipperless "magna-flips" to battle The Power.