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Pstandard Psychic Pstance
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In order to visually demonstrate Concentration-Bound Magic, when someone uses their Psychic Powers they may put a hand up to their head — most traditionally with the middle and fore fingers on the brow and thumb on or very near the jaw. If they're doing something really hard, it takes both hands on their temples. If it's something really difficult, they have to use both hands — and quiver, and maybe bleed from the nose. This is a type of Magical Gesture. Healing Hands is a similar standard-gesture power. Not to be confused with the Face Palm. Compare Blasting Time. Compare and contrast Gotta Get Your Head Together, which generally happens to a person on the receiving end of Psychic Powers. See also Obligatory Earpiece Touch. noreallife Examples |
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The Strange Revenge of Lena Luthor: The villain Mind-Bomber puts both hands to his temples when he uses his psychic powers to amplify Lena's telepathy. | |
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In The World Ends with You, Neku does this when scanning NPCs and when using any of his Psychic Powers in battle that don't require him to move. It's a variant, as rather then putting his hands directly on his temples, he places them so that they cover his headphones. For bonus points, he levitates while doing it. | |
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Champions Online is guilty of this as well, though characters are able to switch between different emission points for their powers. One could emit psychic blasts from their chest, and fire from their foreheads for example. The Ego Choke power is a very graphically similar gesture to Darth Vader while maintaining it, causing the target to flail and grab their throat. | |
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Bone: Thorn and Gran'ma Ben hold two fingers vertically in front of one eye when using their Veni-yan-cari powers. | |
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X-Men: In early comics, Professor X was often depicted (as an icon on the cover, but seldom in an actual story) doing a double hand-to-temple gesture, like someone trying to salute with both hands at once. However, Jean Grey rarely used hand gestures with her telekinetic powers. This is because they're using two different powers: Professor Xavier is the most powerful telepath in the Marvel Universe, but he has no telekinesis whatsoever. Prof. Xavier, Jean Grey and almost every other telepathic character depicted in the Marvel Universe do the hand-to-head gesture when using the telepathy — but not when using telekinesis. However, Jean Grey does use this trope when using her telekinesis in X-Men: The Animated Series. This is a case of Depending on the Artist as Jean has been drawn using her hands to direct her telekinesis. |
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The Twelve: Mastermind Excello, being a forties sensitive, constantly has this pose. Either because he's doing his ultra-senses thing, or because he's having headaches from all the noise he inadvertently senses. | |
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Sluggy Freelance: Used in a simplified flashback scene recapping the chapter "bROKEN" for when Oasis uses pyrokinesis. She didn't actually do it like that when it happened, particularly as she can only do in unconsciously. As seen here, but mind the further spoilers in the surrounding comics unless you've read up to chapter 63 ("Safe House"). | |
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The flower girl from Epic (2013) tries and fails to move a twig with the hands-to-head version in an attempt to prove that she's capable of becoming queen of the forest (the twig was actually a stickbug-person). At the end, when she does become queen, she does the same thing when she un-shrinks MK. | |
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Subverted in Mistborn. Vin automatically uses the palm out gesture when pushing on things telekinetically, before her mentor reminds her that it's completely unecessary and makes her drop her weapon. | |
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In The Girl with the X-Ray Mind, Lena Thorul touches her temples with one hand or one pair of fingers every time she reads minds. | |
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In Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix+, Vexen's usual pose during battle involves him holding his hand to his forehead while his shield floats directly in front of him. He moves his hand away when gesturing for his actual attacks, though. | |
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Doyle and Cordelia on Angel put a hand to their heads whenever they got a vision — but that's because it gives them a giant fricking headache every time. However, when the latter becomes part demon to carry the power (as it will kill a human with enough time), she doesn't do this, as it's completely painless. | |
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In Chuck, the title character makes a distinctive face when the supercomputer in his brain "flashes." Played for laughs when he and his girlfriend make "flash faces" without the accompanying visual and sound effects. This also serves as a plotpoint a few times. Once, Chuck figures out that a villain has his own Intersect by the same facial tics. |
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Subverted on Haven. In "The Trial of Audrey Parker," Ezra, the Troubled of the week, can read minds and spends much of the episode with his fingers pressed to his forehead. In a subversion, it's not because it helps him, it's because he has Power Incontinence and his involuntary mind reading is giving him a massive headache. | |
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Shawn Spencer of Psych has eidetic memory, Hyper-Awareness and his deductive reasoning skills honed to an amazing degree thanks to being trained by his policeman father. However, he does not become a cop (he used to want to) but he still desires to help people out in a similar fasion so he pretends to be a psychic and really hams up the gestures while using his powers of observation instead. This is actually a tic of his as he uses a more subtle version when he is recalling a specific memory, even when no one is around to. He just exaggerates it for presentation purposes. |
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And then in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, we see a young Mantis who never does this. And he's way more powerful. | |
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Dominic Deegan: The titular character sometimes holds a hand to his forehead when using his second sight. This usually happens when he's a) purposely trying to have visions, rather than having them spontaneously, b) not using a Crystal Ball as a focus, or c) exasperated. Maybe trying to have visions makes his head hurt. Possibly, considering how many Psychic Nosebleeds he's had after particularly rough uses of his second sight. | |
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Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy only uses this for powers that cause you to lose control of your body, such as remote viewing and mind control. Telekinesis still involves arm gestures, though how wild the flailing is seems to depend on how hammy the character is feeling at the time. | |
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Heroes Sylar "flicks" things out of the way. In fact, his gestures are so slight compared to the common psychic hand motions that it borders on trope subversion (tipping over the vehicle carrying Ted is no biggie). Peter plays the trope straight, with wide arm movements and full open palm hand gestures whenever he uses his telekinesis. The people with the ability to read minds can do this almost passively. But if they need to focus at all (for example reading an unwilling person's mind, or trying to read another mind reader's mind), it seems they need a sudden twitch movement of their head (and intensive staring) to kick their power into action. And there is the Psychic Nosebleed if they have to try too hard. Again, Peter always needs this head flick to use the power. In the episode "The Eclipse, Part 1", Hilarity Ensues when the titular eclipse nullifies everyone's powers, but people still try to use their Pstandard Psychic Pstances. Leading to Sylar flicking his fingers uselessly, and Matt to try to mind-control Daphne's dad, only for him to say "Why're you turning your head sideways? What's wrong with you, son?" Whenever Hiro uses his teleporting or time freezing powers, he usually scrunches up his face and blinks his eyes. At one point, Hiro is actually forced to teleport when Ando presses his face into this stance. Also lampshaded when Ando tries to teach a memory-wiped-to-eight-years-old Hiro how to use his powers by showing his stance, only for Hiro to reply, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever seen". When Ando injects himself with a Super Serum to get an ability in order to save a now powerless Hiro who's stuck in the past, he tries to do what Hiro does. Not his stance. |
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Invoked in the Adventures in Odyssey episode "Blind Girl's Bluff", wherein a blind girl feigns clairvoyance with the help of a friend and a two-way radio. | |
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Dark Sun: Magic is illegal, so mages try to pass themselves off as psychics (complete with this stance) to excuse the lobbing of fireballs and other magical effects. Results may vary depending on how familiar the surrounding populace are with actual psychics or illegal mages, and it's usually not helped that magic drains life energy from the environment. | |
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Naruto: Gaara largely averts this. While he can make his sand move (and kill people) with various gestures, the hands-to-head thing usually doesn't happen unless he's having a psychic argument with Shukaku. | |
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In early comics, Professor X was often depicted (as an icon on the cover, but seldom in an actual story) doing a double hand-to-temple gesture, like someone trying to salute with both hands at once. However, Jean Grey rarely used hand gestures with her telekinetic powers. This is because they're using two different powers: Professor Xavier is the most powerful telepath in the Marvel Universe, but he has no telekinesis whatsoever. Prof. Xavier, Jean Grey and almost every other telepathic character depicted in the Marvel Universe do the hand-to-head gesture when using the telepathy — but not when using telekinesis. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: Subverted in this strip, where a giant-headed superhero named Dr. Brainington presses two hands against his forehead in seeming preparation for using psychic powers before just bludgeoning the criminal with his oversized cranium. | |
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Matilda, the eponymous telekinetic girl usually would use the stare and squint version to use her powers, though she frequently slipped into gesture-based invocation. One particular example is near the end, when she twirls her forearm around in a circle to make the globe that Trunchbull was on top of spin rapidly. | |
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Used to an extent in The Dresden Files with evocation. With enough willpower, it's possible to skip this entirely, and the stronger a wizard is, the more he can do with a simpler motion. The Archive is good enough that she can have multiple spells going with one motion. | |
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Supernatural has the demons pinning people against the wall with a flick of their hand. When Sam uses his Psychic Powers to exorcise and/or kill demons, he stretches out his hand and sometimes puts a hand to his head. Ava put her hands up to her head when controlling demons, and tried to pass it off as a headache. | |
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In Supergirl (1972), Supergirl befriends a telepath and precognitive called Wanda. Wanda takes both hands on their temples when she uses her psychic powers. | |
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Whateley Universe: Mentioned, in Saks and Violence, with the "two hands for more power" variant: | |
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Elektra often did this on Space Stars, not only as a member of the Teen Force, but also when she crossed over to Space Ghost's segments. | |
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Sheldon does this on The Big Bang Theory in an attempt to blow up Leonard's head psychically, Ã la Scanners. | |
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X-Men: First Class: It seems to be a personal favorite for Charles; it's a crutch to aid with his concentration. | |
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Ness from EarthBound (1994) touches both his temples when using his powers in the Super Smash Bros. series. Mewtwo doesn't usually bother with this trope, but makes an exception when wielding a hammer. In contrast, in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Lucas uses hand signs and other hand motions when using his powers. | |
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Homestuck Tavros, Vriska, and Aradia all utilize the two-hands-against-the-temples variants. Tavros uses it when communing with native Alternian fauna and Underlings, Vriska uses it while exerting her Mind Control, and Aradia uses it when summoning the spirits of the dead. This Played for Laughs when Vriska tries REALLY hard to manipulate John and ends up contorting herself into a ridiculous pose while squinting one eye shut. |
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Averted in With Strings Attached. After Ringo discovers that he's telekinetic, he starts to play with it by pointing at stuff, frowning at it, etc. He quickly learns that all this nonsense distracts him from the concentration required to actually move things. Later, people are unnerved when he just sits there with his eyes closed and stuff happens. (Also, the power is completely invisible, so no wiggly lines or power glow or anything.) | |
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Dark City (1998) uses this one, especially late on. When the main character uses his Tuning ability, he usually just points his forehead at the target. Sounds subtle, but makes the final fight look a bit like a neanderthal Staring Contest with ripple effects. | |
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White Zombie: Legendre employs his hypnotic powers by hand gestures, usually by clenching them together. | |
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Second Sight has several of these, including kneeling down with hand pressed to your head. | |
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In Turning Red, Priya strikes the two handed variation while brainstorming. | |
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Used multiple times in the Stargate-verse, by various Advanced Humans (tm). | |
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Jun Lee from Genesis of Aquarion uses a slightly modified version of the stance when applying his "psychography" skill to see the unseen: rather than putting his fingers to his temples, he puts his fingers just above his eyebrows, forming a triangular bridge over his eyes. He's pointing his fingers to the center of his forehead, which is said to be where the 'third eye' is in yoga. | |
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In StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Kerrigan is seen holding fingers to her forehead in some of the cutscenes. Averted in the novel Starcraft: Ghost: Nova, where the titular character (one of the strongest terran psychics) doesn't do much in terms of hand gestures, even when she's levitating herself with her telekinesis. Then again, it's a book, so this is not necessary. |
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Averted in the e-novel EHUD Prelude To Apocalypse, as the narration goes out of its way to show that the characters do NOT shown any physical signs of using psychic abilities. | |
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"Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" of The X-Files: Mr Bruckman, a real deal psychic, doesn't really do this, but parodies it at one point; when he reveals he's been sent a mysterious letter promising further bloodshed from, presumably, the killer, and the agents ask him who it was from, he grabs it, puts it to his forehead and yells "The killer!" in a sarcastic tone of voice. Subverted: Mr Bruckman places objects up against his head during the interrogation scene. He's unable to get a single reading from any of them, even though it has been established that he really can see past and future deaths. Parodied again when the psychic, having just failed to predict the winning lottery number, buries his face in his hands and from there foresees that the person who just entered the room is Fox Mulder come to ask him for more psychic clues while his skeptical partner does an autopsy. |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Averted in the normal course of things — one of the advantages of Psionics over Magic is the utter lack of any Somatic, Verbal and Material components, allowing use even when unable to move or speak — but it's still quite common for such characters to be described with such actions simply as mannerisms. A particular dwarf psion in the group may well be perfectly capable of blasting enemies without moving a muscle, even when bound and gagged, but when his hands are free, he still usually holds one out toward whatever he's blasting. Dark Sun: Magic is illegal, so mages try to pass themselves off as psychics (complete with this stance) to excuse the lobbing of fireballs and other magical effects. Results may vary depending on how familiar the surrounding populace are with actual psychics or illegal mages, and it's usually not helped that magic drains life energy from the environment. |
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X-Men Film Series X-Men: First Class: It seems to be a personal favorite for Charles; it's a crutch to aid with his concentration. X-Men: Days of Future Past: Occurs almost every time Past Xavier utilizes his psychic abilities, and when he's using Logan as a conduit to the future, on Logan's temple. James McAvoy said in an interview that he specifically chose to use the Pstandard Psychic Pstance because whenever Charles used his powers on film, it was just closeups, and adding his hand made the shot more dynamic. Plus, Patrick Stewart never did anything similar in his tenure as Professor X. X-Men: Apocalypse: Jean Grey performs this gesture when she uses her telepathy. She must have learned it from Xavier. |
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Mentor of Freedom Force uses this in all of its hammy goodness of Silver Age comics when using his abilities. | |
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In Smallville, Imra a.k.a. Saturn Girl does this whenever she uses telepathy. | |
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Rocket Age: Every depiction of the various psychic powers shows practitioners in very traditional poses. Favourites include the hand to brow, the directional gesture and the guru styled lotus position. | |
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X-Men: Days of Future Past: Occurs almost every time Past Xavier utilizes his psychic abilities, and when he's using Logan as a conduit to the future, on Logan's temple. James McAvoy said in an interview that he specifically chose to use the Pstandard Psychic Pstance because whenever Charles used his powers on film, it was just closeups, and adding his hand made the shot more dynamic. Plus, Patrick Stewart never did anything similar in his tenure as Professor X. | |
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Steven Universe has a variation. Whenever Garnet uses her Future Vision, she lifts her visor a little. | |
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Averted in the Resident Evil Film Series. When Alice uses a power, she never moves her hands. | |
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Whether disguised or not, Crypto (that's you) out of Destroy All Humans! often takes this posture when using his abilities. | |
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Mass Effect kind of justifies this trope, saying that the various poses struck by a biotic character when they use their powers is part of their training. Biotics are surgically implanted to give them direct and focused control over their powers, and these implants are wired to various nerves, meaning the best way to activate the eezo nodules in their bodies that actually produce biotic powers (eezo + electricity = Applied Phlebotinum in the Mass Effect universe) is to make actual movements, thus triggering the nerves. It may also help that some implants are noted to give the user splitting headaches. Rubbing at the temples may help to stem the pain. |
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Gunnerkrigg Court: Parley uses this position to try to communicate with a ghost. This just leads to the ghost asking one of the other characters why she's acting like this. | |
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When, much later, the Tenth Doctor does some telepathy, he puts his hands on the other person's temples. This can be considered a variation of the trope though, as it is a reference to the gesture employed by the Vulcans (and Romulans) in Star Trek to do their mind meld. The Fourth Doctor does this (hands to her temples) to Sarah Jane, to hypnotize her, at least once. The Roger Delgado Master, on the other hand, just stares with a hypnotic glare. |
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Toth-Amon does this in Conan the Destroyer, complete with silly mannerisms. So do Akiro and the leader of the Dagoth worshipers. | |
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In Attack of the Clones, when Yoda was holding up a pillar to prevent some other Jedi from being crushed by it, he was using both hands and shaking besides. | |
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Raven from Teen Titans (2003) will frequently assume the pose while using her powers outside combat. And occasionally, while in combat. | |
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Superman: In Supergirl (1972), Supergirl befriends a telepath and precognitive called Wanda. Wanda takes both hands on their temples when she uses her psychic powers. Saturn Girl from the Legion of Super-Heroes takes one or both hands to her head when she uses her telepathy more often than not. In The Girl with the X-Ray Mind, Lena Thorul touches her temples with one hand or one pair of fingers every time she reads minds. The Strange Revenge of Lena Luthor: The villain Mind-Bomber puts both hands to his temples when he uses his psychic powers to amplify Lena's telepathy. |
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Subverted in the first The Immortals book when Daine is having her first formal lesson in magic. Her impulse at first is to emphasise her mental movements physically but her teacher tells her it's not necessary. | |
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The girl in Escape to Witch Mountain used the hands-to-temple stance for concentrated telepathic activity. Her brother favoured the stare-and-squint version | |
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Pokémon: Psyduck, a Pokémon with access to psychic moves such as Confusion, is always depicted looking off into space with both paws on its temples. Oddly enough, despite the "Psy" part of its name, it isn't actually a Psychic-type Pokémon, nor is its evolved form Golduck (both are pure Water-type Pokémon). That's mostly because Psyduck also always have constant headaches. It's sort of a double meaning; they're holding their heads because it well, hurts. It just so happens they're doing this when using their psychic powers, too. In Pokémon Sun and Moon, the pose the trainer performs to make his or her Pokémon use the Psychic-type Z-Move consists of placing both index fingers on his/her temples, keeping one finger in that position while extending the other arm in front of him/her with an outward-facing palm. |
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Similarly, Fin Raziel in Willow, when using Elora Danaan's wand to toss Bavmorda around, uses gestures along with some sort of magic words. Abruptly becomes very funny when she shouts "Nananananana!" while twirling the wand to spin Bavmorda in midair. | |
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Martian Manhunter did this in the first season finale of Justice League Unlimited. "Flash is still alive! I'm in telepathic contact with him... his spirit is weak, and growing weaker... but he's still here." All while holding his right hand to his head and moving the left one around like he's dowsing for water. The hand-waving may be justified, as when Hawkgirl does it, she reaches into the Speed Force and grabs ahold of him. | |
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In The Venture Bros., Doctor Orpheus does this whenever he necromances. Or says hello, or uses telekinesis to make fritatas. | |
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Psycho Mantis, in Metal Gear Solid, does this all the time. When we see later psychics who don't do this, it just cements Mantis as an arrogant Large Ham. And then in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, we see a young Mantis who never does this. And he's way more powerful. |
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Many characters in Psychonauts strike this pose when using various psychic powers, especially telekinesis and pyrokinesis. Including the telekinetic bears. Raz strikes one of these whenever he gains a new psychic power. This gets parodied in Psychonauts 2, when he does this after getting his first all-new power "Mental Connection", and his fellow interns wonder why he's posing dramatically like that. One of the tips he can give his father (who spends the game training his powers) is to "press harder on his temple", to which he responds that he's starting to bruise there. |
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Zapped! (1982). Barney Springboro is your typical 80's nerdy virgin teen who gains the ability to move objects using only the power of his half-assed glare. Given that he's played by Scott Baio, it's hard to say if it's being subverted or played straight. | |
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However, Jean Grey does use this trope when using her telekinesis in X-Men: The Animated Series. This is a case of Depending on the Artist as Jean has been drawn using her hands to direct her telekinesis. | |
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In Good Omens (2019) when Crowley and Aziraphale meet in the park after they switch bodies, Aziraphale actually Crowley-as-Aziraphale briefly closes his eyes and presses his fingers to his temples, when he checks the surroundings to make sure no one is looking at them, before they switch back. | |
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Saturn Girl from the Legion of Super-Heroes takes one or both hands to her head when she uses her telepathy more often than not. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: One of the three models for the Wyrdvane Psyker is standing with his hand to his temple as if focusing his power. | |
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El Goonish Shive: Dan uses this here when he discovers he can communicate telepathically (i.e. use the chat function) while playing a Multi-User Dungeon. | |
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In Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Mentok the Mindtaker◊ often does this, but mainly because he's a big showoff. | |
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Sophia Hapgood did it in Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, except when she really IS communing with spirits. | |
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Doctor Who During the First Doctor's tenure, happens when his granddaughter Susan shows telepathic abilities. When, much later, the Tenth Doctor does some telepathy, he puts his hands on the other person's temples. This can be considered a variation of the trope though, as it is a reference to the gesture employed by the Vulcans (and Romulans) in Star Trek to do their mind meld. The Fourth Doctor does this (hands to her temples) to Sarah Jane, to hypnotize her, at least once. The Roger Delgado Master, on the other hand, just stares with a hypnotic glare. The Eleventh Doctor prefers to knock his head with the other person's head. In "The Doctor's Wife," Amy and Rory both do this: Amy likely because that's how she's always seen it, but Rory's is justified as it clearly gave him a headache. |
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That's So Raven's star Raven has her own nonstandard psychic stance — whenever she gets a vision, she shakes her head slightly and stares into the camera with a shocked look on her face. Lampshaded in the Crossover That's So Suite Life of Hanna Montana: | |
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Child of the Storm: it isn't necessary, but Betsy Braddock does it a couple of times when focusing her telepathy. | |
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An early television example of this comes from Uncle Martin the psionic Martian in My Favorite Martian. Telepathy and clairvoyance required he put his fingers to his temples. Telekinesis required the use of his finger, to the point that he couldn't use his telekinesis if he couldn't move his finger — although he once managed to use his nose instead of his finger, inspired by "some television show he saw" in which a woman twitched her noses for her powers (Bewitched). | |
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Dragon Ball: Goku does this before using his Instant Transmission teleportation technique, while he's searching for a target's ki signature to lock onto. Usually he only holds the pose for a moment, but if the target is particularly far away he may need to maintain it for a while. | |
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In Pokémon Sun and Moon, the pose the trainer performs to make his or her Pokémon use the Psychic-type Z-Move consists of placing both index fingers on his/her temples, keeping one finger in that position while extending the other arm in front of him/her with an outward-facing palm. | |
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Cartman from South Park and a bunch of other phony psychics engage in this, as well as a bunch of hokey "special effects" sounds. Nya-nya-nya-nya-nya! Pashooo! | |
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Mork & Mindy: Mork from Ork uses his finger in a parody of My Favorite Martian. | |
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Astro City: Subverted by Maddie Sullivan. When she uses her telekinetic powers, she extends her thumb and pinkie, then puts the thumb to her lips. | |
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Accepted has a student majoring in Mental Detonation assume this stance as he is trying to make random objects explode with his mind. | |
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Done by Lieutenant Commander Cadrat Vareni in Golden Age when the Alternian Empire attacks Excelsis-Five. This is lampshaded by Karkat. | |
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Final Fantasy VIII: Squall's magic-casting animation involves him putting his hand to his forehead, and then outstretching his arm towards the enemy. | |
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Early on in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Irina Spalko exhibits this, replete with creepy theremin music in the background. | |
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Charmed: The telekinesis-by-handwave version appears on this series. Prue only developed this later on, after first moving things by squinting at them real hard. Paige goes through the usual hand-motions, with the added need to call out whatever object she wanted to move. Her telekinesis was a little different. It seems that she could teleport things without touching them with a combination of this trope and using the name of the object, but also alter the object's direction if it was moving. |
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X-Men: Apocalypse: Jean Grey performs this gesture when she uses her telepathy. She must have learned it from Xavier. | |
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Legion: Charles Xavier doesn't need to perform this gesture when he activates his telepathy (as shown in the scenes at the mental hospital), but it helps him to concentrate when he has to probe another mind more deeply than just scanning their surface thoughts. His actor Harry Lloyd confirms this. | |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): In "Is My Very Nature That of a Devil", Lestat de Lioncourt places a couple of fingers against his temple while implanting a telepathic command to a few dozen soldiers simultaneously to vacate his house. It's a crutch to aid with his concentration. | |
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On The Tonight Show there was Carnac the Magnificent, embodied by Johnny Carson, with the dramatic envelope-to-forehead gesture. | |
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Yumi of Code Lyoko puts both hands to her head when she uses telekinesis on Lyoko. She is also surrounded by an aura and initially closes eyes, but open them and wave with a hand when directing the object (generally a boulder set on a course to crush a monster). | |
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Babylon 5: Telepaths don't use their hands, they just stare at the intended target. It's explicitly stated that (for human teeps, at least) line of sight with their target is needed (or at least makes things easier), so it's justified. When Bester used his P-12 telepathy to crush his victim mentally, he clenched one gloved fist. |
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WildStar: The Esper's combat-ready idle stance has a hand to their head and the other outstretched towards their target. They also hold both hands by their temples when charging up certain moves (like Soothe). |
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Carrie does this subtly — usually, all she does is look at her target, as evidenced when she throws the asshole kid off his bike, or locks down the school gym at the start of her Roaring Rampage of Revenge. However, when she slams shut all the windows and doors in her house, she doesn't even do this. Justified in that (at least in the Remake) by that point, Carrie had practiced enough with her powers that she wouldn't need to see an object to affect it. | |
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Heavily used in City of Heroes and City of Villains, as is to be expected from a game based on western comics. The psychic powers there run the gamut of such poses, from the pose (affectionately named "I'm shooting you with mind bullets!" by the community), through screaming, touching the target of a mind probe, and much gesturing when using telekinetic powers. In a possible partial subversion, most of those are offensive psychic powers. Those that deal with sleeping/stunning/controlling enemies actually do not use the Pstandard Psychic Pstance. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Guinan goes into one of these when Q offers to "relocate" her. This might be a bit of Early-Installment Weirdness, as Guinan is never subsequently implied to have any sort of psychic or supernatural powers. The Ullians in the episode "Violations" assume this pose when they make an extended probe of a person's memories. |
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