History Main / TwinTelepathy

* Played with in one episode of ''Series/{{Cheers}}''. A character who's pregnant with twins stops a pair of adult identical twins as they're leaving the bar, and asks if it's true that twins can read each other's minds. They stand there silently for a second, and she says, "Well?" One responds, "Oh, we're discussing it."

* {{Invoked}} on ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice,'' when {{Superboy}} and [[SuperPowerLottery Miss Martian]] go undercover as supervillain twins. Since Miss Martian is psychic, Superboy uses this trope to explain how they communicate with each other.

* Subverted in ''CollegeRoomiesFromHell'': when Roger's HalfIdenticalTwin sister Lily [[http://www.crfh.net/d/20020107.html tries to read Roger's mind]], she manages to ''almost'' correctly divine the major events of the past four months [[WebcomicTime in-story]], except reversing or twisting around the details (e.g., she claimed he'd shot {{God}} with a Satanic missile, when in fact he's shot {{Satan}} with a blessed shotgun). Roger [[ArbitrarySkepticism dismisses this as coincidence]], a strange attitude for someone who was so [[WeirdnessMagnet immersed in the bizarre]].

** In ''Cold Fire'', the third book of the ''[[CircleOfMagic The Circle Opens]]'' series, also by TamoraPierce, the main character teaches magic to a pair of twin girls who have this kind of connection, although, as in the previous example, it is more empathic than telepathic, and appears to be mostly restricted to knowing when the other one is hurt or in danger.

* In P.C. Hodgell's ''ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath'', protagonist Jame and her fraternal twin brother Torisen have moments of intense connection, sometimes in dreams and sometimes in waking life. He, though, is in denial about this and many other strange things that happen around him.

* ''The Corsican Brothers'' by CheechAndChong, very roughly based on the Dumas book of the same name. The film plays the central concept for slapstick, with the brothers hitting themselves to cause injury to the other.

* In ''[[Manga/ToAruKagakuNoRailgun A Certain Scientific Railgun]]'' the Sisters network is somewhere between this and a HiveMind. Granted, they're mass production clones who're specifically engineered to share their psychic powers this way...

* [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse He-Man]] and [[WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower She-Ra]] exhibited instances of this trope from time to time, although not frequently.

* WesternAnimation/{{He-Man| and the Masters of the Universe}} and {{She-Ra}} exhibited instances of this trope from time to time, although not frequently.

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'': Dreadwing, spark-twin to Skyquake, actually felt his brother's demise over the vast distances of space.

* Slight subversion from the ''CodeGeass'' Nintendo DS game: though the main villains are psychopathic twin princes Castor and Pollux, only the former possesses TwinTelepathy; Pollux has a superior version of Lelouch's own EvilEye.

* In the Western cartoon ''WesternAnimation/{{Silverhawks}}'', Steel Heart and Steel Will had such a link.

* Robot brothers Topspin and Twin Twist demonstrate an ability to share pain, feelings, and even experiences in ''[[Comicbook/IDWTheTransformers Transformers]]: LastStandOfTheWreckers.'' Taken further, this also means that if one dies they both die.

* In ''The Stone Prince'' by Fiona Patton, a novel about a royal family touched by the gods, two of the characters, identical twin princes, are linked Seers. They were Siamese twins at one point (broken apart during birth) and have complementary powers -- one gets his visions at night, the other in the daytime. As knights, they fight cooperatively, without thinking, and other sets of twins in the realm try to imitate their style. And finally, when one goes insane, the other nearly goes with him. Since inheriting the throne would involve literally becoming the vessel of their God, that too would be problematic Would the God know which one of them was first-born, or would It take both of them? If it picked on one, what would happen to the other? There are hints that this has indeed happened in the backstory, and that it ended badly. Oh, and they sleep together, though no sex is implied.

* Kestrel and Bowman Hath, the main characters of William Nicholson's ''The Wind on Fire'' trilogy, have this for no adequately explained reason. Actual telepathy, not just an empathic connection.

* ''Tracker'' had a race called Orsians who were always born in pairs and each set of twins had a telepathic link to one another.

** They demonstrate this in GI Joe Renegades as well.

* ''[[MiracleGirls]]'' is based on this trope; the main characters are identical twins with psychic powers, including telepathy with each other. (Although there have been instances where they were able to communicate with other psychics.)

* ''{{Les Revenants}}'': Camille and Léna. [[spoiler:It's revealed that this was the unintentional cause of Camille's death]].

* The Weasley twins in ''HarryPotter'', especially in the movies. It's implied that they do this just to mess with people's heads.

'''Tim:''' Hoo-shaw!\\

* Robot brothers Topspin and Twin Twist demonstrate an ability to share pain, feelings, and even experiences in Last Stand of the Wreckers. Taken further, this also means that if one dies they both die.

** In an episode of ''[[IronChef Iron Chef America]]'', guest judges [[SisterSister Tia and Tamera Mowry]] noted that the challengers, identical twin chefs Nicola & Fabrizio Carro, were a lot quieter than everyone else and communicated more with slight glances and motions. The girls said they did the same thing. Of course, that comes more from simply being ''extremely'' familiar with each other than anything that would mean [[{{Synchronization}} kicking one means the other feels it.]]

* Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel can type emails without talking to each other even though each girl only controls one hand; they just know what the other wants to say.

* Bran and Matthew Maddox of ''ASwiftlyTiltingPlanet'' possess the ability to sense what the other is [[TheEmpath feeling]].

[[caption-width-right:350:[[http://www.elfwood.com/~wilke/Mindlink.3322401.html Mindlink]]]]

->'''Kim:''' Ron, why can't my brothers be normal?
->'''Ron:''' They're relatively normal. For twins, I mean. At least they don't speak their own weirdo language.
->'''Jim:''' Hikka-bikka-boo?
->'''Tim:''' Hoo-shaw!
--> --''KimPossible'', "The Twin Factor"

In fiction, at least, it is common for twins - especially identical twins (or brother-sister twins who [[HalfIdenticalTwins seem otherwise identical]]) - to seem to share a PsychicLink, even in series which do not otherwise have any paranormal element. This connection may vary from a vague feeling of when the other twin is in danger, to continuous [[{{Telepathy}} telepathic]] communication, to being an outright HiveMind. They often [[{{Synchronization}} experience each other's injuries]] as part of their link, and frequently [[FinishingEachOthersSentences finish each other's sentences]]. In a very few cases, the siblings involved are not twins.