History Main / PokeInTheThirdEye

* Natsu of ''Manga/FairyTail'' is able to overwhelm Cobra's ability to "hear" his thoughts by basically [[PsychicStatic screaming really loud]]. Despite Natsu's [[IMeantToDoThat claims]], he did this completely by accident (otherwise Cobra would have literally heard it coming).

* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' the "observatory" uses [[SoulFragment observer apparitions]] [[HauntedTechnology produced by catatonic mediums]] that are [[InvisibleToNormals invisible to anyone except]] other mediums and Contractors, to spy around. Then they run into one Contractor who can catch these.
* In an episode of ''Anime/NightRaid1931'', the protagonists face another super-powered individual who, in addition to several other powers, can read minds. He's defeated by the telepath of the group falsely broadcasting a message that another's powers have run out, which he doesn't realize is a lie, since his powers don't allow him to separate unconscious thoughts to truthful sounding ones being deliberately broadcast.

* In ''[[Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun A Certain Scientific Railgun T]]'', one of the Tokiwadai girls uses her telepathy to coordinate her teammates during the "Balloon Hunter" game. However, their opponents studied up on the Tokiwadai students and found her weakness: arachnophobia. By dropping a fake spider in her face, she not only screamed externally, but ''internally'' as well - and all her thoughts were being beamed directly into the minds of her teammates with a fair amount of reverb. It had a similar effect to a ''sonic weapon''.
* ''Manga/TheDemonGirlNextDoor'' had an arc that involved Shamiko reliving the memories of her best friend Momo in a PensieveFlashback.[[note]]Which works a bit differently than in other examples, where observers cannot affect the events around them whatsoever: Present!Momo inhabits her past body and speaks to Shamiko through it, but usually refrains from doing so, as Past!Momo will act out events to the best of her memory otherwise. Shamiko must also be sure to remain as passive an observer as possible, as she could derail the playback if she does much more than stand around and watch.[[/note]] The main thrust of the flashback is Momo's past dealings with another magical girl, Suika Nayuta. [[spoiler:Suika appears to be nice at first, but is actually a NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist. At the end of their confrontation, Suika is reduced to a black shadow, [[VillainsDyingGrace heals Momo's wounds]]... and tells "the horned demon who's been peeking in on them" that she will kill her some day.]] A bit of an AmbiguousSituation because, considering the specific rules of this flashback, this could either be this trope, or [[spoiler:Present Suika was able to sneak into the flashback as an observer alongside Shamiko and Momo, inhabiting her past body like Momo did]].
* ''Manga/DragonBallSuper'': When Goku tries sensing Moro's ki, he's deeply shocked to discover Moro can sense this in turn, acknowledging Goku from across the universe with wicked amusement.

* ''LightNovel/ExpectingToFallIntoRuinIAimToBecomeABlacksmith'': When interrogating some assassins sent after him, the protagonist Kururi learns that one group was sent by a TribeOfPriests to kill him specifically because anytime they try to use their magical visions to spy on his Kingdom of Kudan, they just see images of him. Kururi is incredulous of this, but the assassin says he tried it himself and only saw Kururi's nostril. This is followed by a GodTest where he successfully turns a glass of water into grape juice, poking fun at Kururi's MessianicArchetype traits.
* ''Literature/MushokuTenseiJoblessReincarnation'': Rudeus acquires a Demon Eye which allows him to see a few seconds into the future, which he uses to foresee attacks and respond early. This works against him twice.
** Rujierd, having experience with similar abilities, tricks the eye so it sees multiple future attacks overlapping one another. Rudeus is so thrown he fails to block the actual attack.
** Orsted launches an attack which Rudeus barely escapes. He's unnerved by a white void his demon eye saw after the attack, concluding he just saw ''death''.
* ''Literature/Overlord2012'': Ainz, being TheParanoiac, has anti-scrying abilties and Counter Detect spells enabled as much as possible. It's heavily implied Miko Princess of Earth has died by Ainz's explosion spell he remotely used on whoever was observing his first battle.

* In ''Literature/RachelGriffin'', this happens in one of [[FaintingSeer Nastasia]]'s visions: an EldritchAbomination sees her and tries to keep her from returning to her body. When this fails, it follows her across universes and [[YourWorstNightmare into her dreams]].

* PlayedForLaughs in [[https://moringmark.tumblr.com/post/654428028904030208 this]] ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' fan-comic. Luz tries scrying on [[BigBad Emperor Belos]], but he's powerful enough that he can detect her spell and make it work both ways. Luz decides to exploit this by scrying on him in the middle of the night and playing loud music.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'', among the many random events that each foray into the [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace Shroud]] can trigger is one that has your psykers accidentally listen in on some meeting of a [[BonusBoss Fallen Empire]]'s leaders from halfway across the galaxy. If successful, you get a nice boon like some end-game tech. More often than not, however, the aliens will notice the cross-dimensional intrusion and slap you with a hefty opinion penalty that can potentially end in them [[OhCrap declaring war on you]].

* ''Manga/DragonballSuper'': When Goku tries sensing Moro's ki, he's deeply shocked to discover Moro can sense this in turn, acknowledging Goku from across the universe with wicked amusement.

* ''LightNovel/MushokuTenseiJoblessReincarnation'': Rudeus acquires a Demon Eye which allows him to see a few seconds into the future, which he uses to foresee attacks and respond early. This works against him twice.

* ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'': Ainz, being TheParanoiac, has anti-scrying abilties and Counter Detect spells enabled as much as possible. It's heavily implied Miko Princess of Earth has died by Ainz's explosion spell he remotely used on whoever was observing his first battle.

* ''Film/{{Constantine}}''. Constantine is using The Chair to magically spy on the Mexican man possessed by TheSpearOfDestiny. When the man realizes he's being spied on, he somehow grabs Constantine by the throat and tries to strangle him.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' has Spock using his TouchTelepathy several times on different species, including humans and some very alien aliens. Occasionally, the attempt goes wrong
** In "The Devil In The Dark", he mind melds with the Horta and ends up downloading the horrible pain the wounded creature was suffering. He does better on the second attempt, though, once he's managed to brace himself for it.
** In "By Any Other Name", the attempt to influence the mind of one of their alien captors goes somewhat wrong, as the mind in question is too alien for even Spock to handle. While his attempt to distract the captor works, he is literally flung out of the meld and seems badly disoriented for a considerable amount of time afterwards while he tries to make sense of what he just saw.
** In "The Changeling", the meld with the artificial mind of the NOMAD begins to go seriously bad, to the point that Spock is sent into a near catatonic state as NOMAD takes control of the meld. Kirk (who NOMAD fortunately respects as its creator) has to order NOMAD to let go of Spock and drag the Vulcan out into the hall to recover from the experience.

See also MySignificanceSenseIsTingling, ButtDialingMordor (which can result in accidental pokes in the third eye), PsychicStatic, and PsychicBlockDefense. Compare MoveInTheFrozenTime.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'':

-->'''Dio:''' Joseph Joestar... ''You're watching me, aren't you?!''

** Happens so many times to J'onn J'onz in that he may as well not ever bother using his telepathy.

* The ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire'' Pokédex entries for Xatu state that it is silent and unmoving because it is [[VaguenessIsComing so horrified by its visions of the future]].

* The ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire'' Pokédex entries for Xatu state that it is silent and unmoving because it is [[NightmareFuel so horrified by its visions of the future]].

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* In ''Shadow Operations: Resurrection'' (set in the Franchise/StarTrek universe), the five species of the Carnora have a network of devices that allows them to telepathically communicate across lightyears. The Federation manage to get a hold of a node, and try to test it. The first sign something has gone wrong is when the hapless Betazoid who is doing the initial test pulls out his phaser and blows the device apart, then surrenders himself to security, repeating a phrase in an unknown (even to him!) language. Then a powerful Telepath from the Carnora shows up and makes it abundantly clear this incursion was both unwelcome and unwise and they are ''not'' amused; furthermore the next person who pulls this stunt is simply going to become a mental vegetable. To drive it all home, the language this Betazoid is babbling in is a Carnoric language the Federation has never encountered before, and the phrase is a plea for forgiveness.

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* In Book 19 of the ''Literature/LoneWolf'' series ''Dawn of the Dragons'', Lone Wolf can opt to contact his friend Banedon telepathically with Telegnosis to confirm whether or not he survived the crash of his skyship. If he does, he discovers a wall of sorts in the astral realm blocking his attempts. During his attempts to break through the wall, he senses that Naar, who is literally the UltimateEvil, is using his own power to repair it. Lone Wolf immediately ceases his attempts to avoid giving Naar any chance at attacking his mind.

** Third Edition's ''Book of Vile Darkness'' also has the ''psychic poison'' spell (which despite its name is more akin to a curse, although it mostly follows the mechanics of poisons) for this very purpose. When cast on a creature, item or area, it means that anyone next trying to use divination or mind-affecting magic on the subject is exposed to the psychic poison. The effects are variable, but always involve some reduction of mental stats, which can be very debilitating for a spellcaster.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' plays with this trope in "Haunted". Robin keeps seeing Slade wherever he goes and to make matters worse, he's the only one that can. Disturbed by Robin's [[SanitySlippage increasingly erratic behavior]], the Titans try unsuccessfully to convince him that what he is experiencing is all in head. He insists that they're wrong, citing his many bruises as evidence and asking if they think he did this to himself. Raven uses her powers to psychically connect with Robin and [[SeeingThroughAnothersEyes see Slade for herself.]] The next punch that Slade throws is so strong that it breaks the connection and sends her flying backwards.

* Done as a case of MuggingTheMonster and then BullyingADragon to Miss Martian in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' when psychic villain Psimon attempts to mentally assault her with her worst fears and insecurities. He wound up in a catatonic state for about five years.

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': According to the ''Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy'', [[TheForce Force-sensitive]] people have a certain part of their brain that will reflexively do this during any attempts to probe said area, psycho-kinetically pushing the one doing the probing. The stronger the person is in TheForce, the farther the one doing the probing will be hurled.

* Caleb from ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' carries an ''Amulet of Proof Against Detection and Location'', which prevents scrying spells from getting a lock on him. When a scrying spell targets someone else in the Mighty Nein, Caleb is able to counter the spell by holding the amulet up to the invisible scrying sensor, dispelling it.

* ''Fanfic/SenkiZesshouSymphogearWXDUnlimited'': [[Literature/{{Worm}} Tattletale's]] power is unable to get any sort of reading from the [[Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear Alca-Noise]], and receives massive headaches when trying to read either of the Symphogear users.

* ''Film/DejaVu'': When first using the Snow White device to look into the past, Carlin is unnerved by Claire's apparent ability to sense that she's being watched from the future as at the time he thought he was watching surveillance footage from satellites, not realizing they were looking three days in the past.

* ''LightNovel/MushokuTensei'': Rudeus acquires a Demon Eye which allows him to see a few seconds into the future, which he uses to foresee attacks and respond early. This works against him twice.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', Snape attempts to teach Harry a PsychicBlockDefense against Legilimency (mind reading). The first few times Harry fails utterly; the next he gives up and angrily uses a standard Shield Charm, which effectively reverses the feed and dredges up Snape's own worst memories. Snape isn't happy about this. Voldemort, whose psychic intrusions are the reason for the whole thing, also has it backfire when he possesses Harry and the boy is overwhelmed with grief over his murdered godfather. Voldemort never attempts to possess him again, since feeling any strong affection seems to hurt him.

** Inverted with [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2521 SCP-2521]], who can be seen or depicted safely, but can immediately tell when anyone is talking or writing about it in words, and phases in to [[KilledMidSentence carry them awa-]]