User:SacValleyDweller/Specials in other media

In various other media that I have seen where the focus of the media largly is not humans or other beings with superpowers, I have seen human characters who none the less posses some sort of ability. Their names, abilites, and media in which they appeared follow.

Matilda Wormwood from Matilda

• Age: 5 or 6 in the book and later film adaptation
• Occupation: Elementary school student
• Ability: Telekinesis
  • Limits: Variable, depending on media.

In the book, she is only capable of using her ability to write on a chalkboard with a piece of chalk, but not without extreme physical strain.

In the film, she is capable of making the cathode ray tube of a TV explode, moving objects as big as herself, and moving many small objects

Corporal Walter "Radar" O'Reilly from M*A*S*H

• Age: early 20's during the Korean War, the setting for the original Novel and other adaptations, Age now would be about 70
• Occupation: Clerk at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
• Abilities: Unidentified ability, Enhanced hearing
  • Limits: His enhanced hearing was not very strong, only strong strong enough to hear incoming helicopter-ambulances about 2 seconds before anyone else could.
    His other ability may have been a weak form of telepathy, enhanced intellect, or some precognitive ability. It enabled him to accurately predict the orders and needs of his somewhat bumbling superior, Col. Henry Blake.

From Lost

A few of the characters on Lost exhibit evolved human-like traits or have been identified as being "special" by other characters.

Richard Alpert

• Age: At least 70
• Occupation: Position of secondary leadership of island residents (known as the "others")
• Ability: Immortality
  • Richard has an apparent age of about 35, and has been seen at that apparent age since at least 1954. He has also been described as "very old" by a former member of his group.

Miles Straume

• Age: About 30
• Ocupation: Spiritualist
• Ability: Unidentified ability
  • Limits: While being lead to a location at gunpoint, he was able to detect the fact that he walked over an overgrown, unmarked grave. He was also able to identify the number of bodies contained therein and their cause of death.

Desmond Hume

• Age: 35-40
• Ocupation: Unemployed, Sails around the world
• Ability: Unknown
  • He has been described as special, and that the rules of time/time travel do not apply to him. Twice after he was exposed to extraordinarily high levels of electromagnetic radiation, his conscoiusness traveled though time against his will.

Walt Lloyd

• Age: about 14 as of 2008, the "present" in Lost continuity
• Ocupation: none
• Abilities: Astral Projection, unidentified abilities
  • Limits: Appeared to another character on the island after he, Walt, escaped the island. Believed to be special by the "Others," he was captured by them. While in their captivity, he exhibited unknown abilities that made the Others leery of him. It is implied in a Lost webisode that he was somehow responsible for the death of birds around his cell.