History Main / TwinTelepathy

* In ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'', [[spoiler:Suboshi learns of his twin brother Amiboshi's "death" because he can no longer sense his presence.]]
** Also, Amiboshi and Suboshi can "write" messages to one another on their skin. (For example, Amiboshi writes something on his left hand with his finger, and the message appears on Suboshi's left hand.)

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire'', Tate and Liza of Mosdeep City's Gym are fraternal twins who specialize in the Psychic type, and use their own psychic powers to finish each other's sentences. They are the only Gym Leaders in the entire series to be faced in a [[DualBoss Double Battle]].

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* ''Manga/MobPsycho100'' has the Shiratori twins, Kaito and Daichi, who have this as their main ability. With some training, they learn to combine their psychic powers to read the minds of others.

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* [[http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/05-media-rumble/link-2/ Sent up]] in ''WebComic/DumbingOfAge''.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition'': The Dvati are a non-human race composed entirely of twins, with one soul shared by two bodies. As a result, each pair of Dvati twins can communicate with each other telepathically over any distance, even across different planes of existence. They can know the health and mental state of each other by concentrating a bit. This mental link also means that some powers targeting them will affect both, notably mind-affecting and personal spells.

* In ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'', sextuplet variants happen.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition'': The Dvati are a non-human race composed entirely of twins, with one soul shared by two bodies. As a result, each pair of Dvati twins can communicate with each other telepathically over any distance, even across different planes of existence. They can know the health and mental of each other by concentrating a bit. This mental link also means that some powers targeting them will affect both, notably mind-affecting or personal spells.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/PairOfKings'' where Brady (A white boy) and Boomer (a black boy) are twin brothers and in an attempt to prove that to a group of girls in ThePilot, Brady says he will guess the number Boomer is thinking of.
-->'''Brady:''' It's seven!
-->'''Boomer:''' Nope, 133!
-->''The girls walk away, unimpressed.''
-->'''Brady:''' '' (to Boomer)'' Dude, we always do seven!
-->'''Boomer:''' Those girls looked smart, I had to go triple digits!

-->'''Gem:''' We don't
-->'''Gemma:''' split up
-->'''Gem:''' Ever!

* ''Series/{{Batwoman 2019}}'': Subverted. Kate and her twin sister Beth do not have any form of "magical twin connection." However, in her insanity, Beth blames Kate for not using this connection to find her and save her when she was kidnapped and tortured.

* In ''Series/TeenageBountyHunters2020'' Sterling and Blair are fraternal twins who communicate detailed information without saying anything out loud or time passing for anyone else. This is represented on-screen as them having telepathic conversations when looking at each other, but it's implied that's just a representation of them knowing each other that well. [[spoiler: Subverted when it turns out they're not twins or even siblings, but cousins. Their mothers, who are identical twins, do have the same ability though.]]

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'': On the [[DyingRace rare occasion]] that twins are born to the Eldar they possess a strong psychic bond, often they are used as steersmen for [[MiniMecha Revenant Titans]] that operate in pairs. When one twin is killed their soulstone is almost always bonded to a [[HumongousMecha Wraithknight]] and the surviving sibling pilots it, using their bond to become one with their vehicle.

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* Experienced by Julius and Vincent Benedict (Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger and Danny [=DeVito=]) in the 1988 film ''Film/{{Twins}}'', complete with Synchronization, much to the latter's discomfort.

* In ''Mission to Mercury'' by Hugh Walters, the UN space exploration agency employs a pair of identical twin sisters with a telepathic link. One is trained as an astronaut and goes on the space mission, while the other remains on Earth to relay instantaneous reports on the mission's progress.

* The Angevin Empire of the ''Literature/LordDarcy'' series does the same in Michael Kurland's ''A Study In Sorcery'', using telepathic twins to send covert messages across the Atlantic and keep real-time tabs on their New World settlements. Only thirty-six people are entrusted with the secret of this communication method. Darcy himself is only entrusted with the knowledge that it exists, but quickly roughs out the theory after meeting one twin in the New World and realizing he'd met the other at court in England. Upon his return, he tells the King that if they want to keep their enemies from realizing that magically gifted twins can have special abilities other sorcerers don't, they really should call the project about said application something other than Gemini.

* ''Forced Perspectives'' by Creator/TimPowers:

* In ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'', this is a core part of the plot ever since the first game, where it is revealed that [[spoiler:[=MegaMan.EXE=] is Lan's twin brother, Hub, who died shortly after birth, and was resurrected as a NetNavi. His DNA was changed to be 0.01% different from Lan's ([[MeaningfulAppearance specifically, his eye colour is what was changed]]) so as to prevent this from reaching dangerous levels (to the point where in such a state, if Hub were to take damage, so would Lan), but it can still appear either through running the Hub.bat program or occasionally tapping into it when Lan and [=MegaMan=] synchronize.]]

* In ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'', this is a core part of the plot ever since the first game, where it is revealed that [[spoiler:[=MegaMan.EXE=] is Lan's twin brother, Hub, who died shortly after birth, and was resurrected as a NetNavi. His DNA was changed to be 0.01% different from Lan's ([[MeaningfulAppearance specifically, his eye colour is what was changed]]) so as to prevent this from reaching dangerous levels, but it can still appear either through running the Hub.bat program or occasionally tapping into it when Lan and [=MegaMan=] synchronize.]]

* In ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'', this is a core part of the plot ever since the first game, where it is revealed that [[spoiler:[=MegaMan.EXE=] is Lan's twin brother, Hub, who died shortly after birth, and was ressurected as a NetNavi. His DNA was changed to be 0.01% different from Lan's ([[MeaningfulAppearance specifically, his eye colour is what was changed]]) so as to prevent this from reaching dangerous levels, but it can still appear either through running the Hub.bat program or occasionally tapping into it when Lan and [=MegaMan=] synchronize.]]

* In ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'', this is a core part of the plot ever since the first game, where it is revealed that [[spoiler:[=MegaMan.EXE=] is Lan's twin brother, Hub, who died shortly after birth. His DNA was changed to be 0.01% different from Lan's ([[MeaningfulAppearance specifically, his eye colour is what was changed]]) so as to prevent this from reaching dangerous levels, but it can still appear either through running the Hub.bat program or occasionally tapping into it when Lan and [=MegaMan=] synchronize.]]

* In ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'', this is a core part of the plot ever since the first game, where it is revealed that [[spoiler:MegaMan.EXE is Lan's twin brother, Hub, who died shortly after birth. His DNA was changed to be 0.01% different from Lan's ([[MeaningfulAppearance specifically, his eye colour is what was changed]]) so as to prevent this from reaching dangerous levels, but it can still appear either through running the Hub.bat program or occasionally tapping into it when Lan and MegaMan synchronize.]]

* A core part of the plot in the ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' games, where it functions between the material world and [[EverythingIsOnline the Internet]]. In over half the games, part of the gameplay, too.

** The Stepford Cuckoos, [[CreepyTwins creepy]] psychic ''quintuplets''. They are clones of non-twin telepath Emma Frost. They are separate entities, but sometimes the same sentence will run between two, three, or even five connected speech bubbles.

** This creates an interesting situation in terms of punishment. Its revealed during a mini-series that [[Characters/EmmaFrostWhiteQueen Emma]] "grounds" the Cuckoos by telepathically locking them in their own minds so that they can't communicate with each other like they normally would.
** Through [[Characters/MarvelComicsPsylocke Psyloche's]] telepathy, she and her twin brother [[Characters/CaptainBritain Captain Britain]] share a special bond.

* Mas and Menos of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' apparently have this, as Mas was able to sense when Menos was frozen. This makes sense, since they have WonderTwinPowers anyway.

* ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'': Zack says he'll use his twin telepathy to get Cody, explaining that twin telepathy is how he knew Cody broke his arm that one time. Carrie says ''Zack'' is the one who broke his arm.

* In ''Franchise/StarWars'', Luke and Leia have a connection despite having been SeparatedAtBirth, which conveniently doesn't appear until a crucial moment in the second film. (This may have more do with the fact that both of them are strong in TheForce than with them being twins, though, as Luke demonstrates a similar connection with his father.)

* In ''StarWars'', Luke and Leia have a connection despite having been SeparatedAtBirth, which conveniently doesn't appear until a crucial moment in the second film. (This may have more do with the fact that both of them are strong in TheForce than with them being twins, though, as Luke demonstrates a similar connection with his father.)

* {{Invoked}} on ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice,'' when ComicBook/{{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.

* The Creator/RobertAHeinlein juvenile ''Literature/TimeForTheStars'' uses this form of telepathy to achieve [[SubspaceAnsible superluminal communication]]. However thanks to TimeDilation the twin on Earth ages much quicker than the one on the spaceship. Fortunately his descendants can also communicate this way.
** In Heinlein's ''Literature/TimeEnoughForLove'', OppositeSexClone twins Lapis Lazuli Long and Lorelei Lee Long claim to possess this. It's never verified (and the other characters display an uncharacteristic lack of interest in exploring the phenomenon), but they do talk in FinishingEachOthersSentences and generally behave like SingleMindedTwins.

** The ComicBook/StepfordCuckoos, [[CreepyTwins creepy]] psychic ''quintuplets''. They are clones of non-twin telepath Emma Frost. They are separate entities, but sometimes the same sentence will run between two, three, or even five connected speech bubbles.