In No Ordinary Family, Daphne's power is mind reading. She is initially overwhelmed, but learns to control it. Similar to the Buffy example above, it had more to do with the volume of thoughts than what she was hearing. She ends up helping her father fight crime, against her mother's wishes, become elected to student council and makes a guy like her. Eventually, her powers progress and she is able to control thoughts. Mahnahmi from the Humanx Commonwealth series was born a telepath, fully aware of the thoughts of everyone around her. As it happened, she came into the care of a certain fellow by the name of Conda Challis, who was probably in the running for the Most Depraved Person of the Commonwealth award. Among the least of the things she learned was that he intended to use her as a torture/sex slave when she grew up. This, understandably, permanently warped her psyche and drove her to utter nihilism.

Sister Psyche of City of Heroes is one of the world's strongest psychics. But her powers are so strong she can't help but hear the surface thoughts of everyone around her. Her skimpy costume does not help cultivate altogether pleasant thoughts from local teenage boys... Molly gets the worst of it. As her magical power grows, so does her sensitivity to the thoughts and emotions of beings around her — humans, various evil supernaturals, and Eldritch Abominations. It gets so bad that, by Cold Days, she can barely stand to be in a crowded room.

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I'm not talking about the kind of mental agony so intense it puts us in a hospital or makes our blood seep through our skin like Jesus' did in the Garden of Gethsemane. I'm talking about the garden variety of unbearable thoughts that come to all of us from time to time like slivers that throb just under the skin and won't be removed. Thoughts about what we want or don't want to happen to us, thoughts about what should be or shouldn't be, thoughts that make us feel guilty or afraid. Thoughts that don't drive us mad but make us miserable. Satori Seers are Ayakashi that can look into a person's heart. Ayakashi: Romance Reborn features Aoi, a Satori Seer, as one of the love interests. He thinks everyone has darkness in their hearts, and being naïve to the ways of the human society, he is quite terrified of looking into people's hearts. He is quite cynical because of this. In Stone of Tears, Zedd heals a badly wounded seer. To do that, he must first enter her mind. The pain of the wound itself is described as mild once he manages to get past the seer's visions.

The Collector: The Devil doesn't exactly take well to hearing the pain and evil thoughts of everyone in the universe. a b van der Pol, Marc. "The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste - Ministry". AllMusic . Retrieved March 20, 2010. This is the distinction for Apis's Whisper-Whisper Fruit compared to other Speaks Fluent Animal abilities: hers is explicitly telepathy-based. Projecting more...visceral thoughts falls under this trope, and it's what allows her to keep her larger beasts—particularly her dragon friend Lindy—in line. Reading a bit like a fever dream, one that totally carried me along for the ride! I could never have guessed what was going to happen next, and I was so nervous to see what would be around the next bend. Subverted in one instance: When River reads Jayne's mind, she sees what appears to be regret for trying to sell her out to the Feds. It's surprisingly sweet considering that he's spent the whole series trying to get rid of the Tams. And again in the same scene, when she gets a brief peek at the Shepherd's thoughts.

In a 2016 short by Dorkly Originals, a Haunter uses Dream Eater on a sleeping Pikachu, only to find its dreams rather racy, including sexual fantasies with its trainer and a Tentacruel. This is not just good behavior for me, but you also must recognize how important your mind is. What you put into it will greatly affect what comes out of it.