Telekinesis is a superpower that allows people to move/manipulate or levitate objects without making any physical contact with them.
Background
Telekinesis is one of the main powers of Phoebe and Max. It was first displayed in the series premiere when Phoebe used it to set the dinner table by moving silverware to the table.
It is a long range power that has an unknown limit and can be used to carry barbells of 500 pounds with slight difficulty ,lift three bags of popcorn kernels that were able to fill Max's whole lair with one hand and combine with another user to stop a meteor from destroying a house. The highest number of objects to be manipulated at a time is three.
Telekinetic waves are invisible to the human eye but can be detected by special scanners that use infrared rays such as Thunder Monitor as seen in Cape Fear.
Max and Phoebe have an extra brain lobe that allows them to use telekinetic powers as mentioned in Paging Dr. Thundermans.
Applications
- Telekinetic Blast: Advanced users are capable of blasting telekinetic waves to stop someone or capable of using it as an offensive attack by releasing telekinetic energy over a specific target or area, causing great damage, knock out people, repelling targets and/or delivering great shock waves of pure force.
- Semi-Force Field Generation: Advanced users are capable of blasting multiple telekinetic waves consecutively and/or use it to simulate or even use it as a force field.
- Telekinetic Push: Basic users are able to use Telekinesis to force/repel a person backwards away from the user.
- Telekinetic Pull: Basic users are able to use Telekinesis to attract objects towards the user.
- Motor-Skill Manipulation: In Breaking Dad, Phoebe and Max were capable of manipulating the movement of Hank during the time he was in deep sleep. With this, they were capable of moving his arms, legs, and etc. to achieve effects of Hank being awake while he was really sleeping. Max also used it during his and Quinn's double date with Phoebe and Link to spill water on Phoebe and cause the waiter to mess up while speaking.
- Molecular Manipulation: Advanced users are capable of manipulating molecules of an object to cause various effects.
- Binding: Advanced users are capable of suspending thing moving causing it to pause
- Molecular Combustion/Explosion: Advanced users can combust molecules of an object causing them to explode or shatter.
- Telekinetic Maneuver: Advanced users can redirect the movement of objects and also direct thrown objects at a target.
- Levitation: Basic Users can remotely levitate others people or objects in the air. Advance users can levitate themselves in the air and sustain it as if they are flying. Max and Phoebe used a limited version of this power to increase their physical leaping abilities.
- Energy Manipulation: Advanced users can move, stop, and manipulate energy. Telekinetics are not able to create it, though.
Limitations/Glitches
- Their telekinesis glitched in Going Wonkers. So they had to stay together.
- In Thunder in Paradise, Max was unable to reach Billy's kite as a result of being too far.
- If they use this power too much, it causes "tele-cramps".
- It apparently can only be used through the hands.
- It can be used to manipulate objects that aren't in the users line of vision, though it may result in the manipulation of the wrong object.
Notable Moments
Season 1
- Phoebe used telekinesis to levitate Billy and Nora in front of Cherry in Adventures in Supersitting, causing Cherry to suspect she has superpowers.
- During Math Bowl in Report Card, both Max and Phoebe used telekinesis to sabotage each other's team.
- Phoebe used telekinesis in Nothing to Lose Sleepover to convince her friends that their "light as a feather" game was actually working.
- Max used telekinesis in Pretty Little Choirs to deflect Veronica's spitball attacks on Phoebe.
- In Breaking Dad, Max and Phoebe used telekinesis to make it look as if Hank was the one performing the chemistry demonstrations in class.
Season 2
- When Phoebe was possessed by the Green Ghoul. He used Phoebe's powers against Max and Hank in The Haunted Thundermans.
- When the Thunder Twins sneaked out to a party in Cape Fear, they saw a boy falling from a ladder. Phoebe used telekinesis to save him. Max took the blame for it and hence was nominated to receive the superhero cape.
- In Doubles Trouble, Phoebe and Max used telekinesis to cheat in a tennis tournament.
- Max dared Phoebe to use her powers in public in Meet the Evilmans and when she used her telekinesis, Link saw her.
Season 3
- Both Max and Phoebe used telekinesis in On The Straight And Arrow to help Cherry cheat in her archery class.
- In Are You Afraid of the Park?, Max and Phoebe used telekinesis to stir up trouble by making Billy and Nora think they were touching each other.
- In Thundermans: Secret Revealed, Phoebe uses telekinesis to take the orb away from Max before taking away his powers.
- In the same episode, the Thunder Twins fight for the orb by using telekinesis at the same time which keeps the orb suspended mid-air between them.
Season 4
- In Smells Like Team Spirit, Max and Phoebe use telekinetic trust fall to save each other from hitting the ground after falling from their "team headquarters" tree house.
- In order to distract Principal Bradford, Phoebe uses her telekinesis in 21 Dump Street to make a trash bin fall onto him.
- In Super Dupers, when the twins help Gideon with telekinesis, they get tele-cramps.
- In Thunder in Paradise, Evil Phoebe jeopardizes Billy into kitesurfing in the ocean before he trained.
- When Professor Meteor hit Phoebe and Max with a Gravity Blast in The Thundredth, Phoebe uses her telekinesis on Max's hand so he could take his main power source.
- In The Thunder Games, Max used his telekinesis to win the Phoebe and Max Mano Face Off.
The Thundermans Return
- In The Thundermans Return, Max uses his telekinesis to suspend the meteor in the air so he could use his heat breath causing it to explode before hitting the city of Metroburg.
- On Mount Metroburg, Max fights Dark Mayhem and manipulates his energy projection to throw it back at him.
- Phoebe uses her telekinesis to get the seed container from the large drone before it morphs people into supervillains.
Trivia
- Telekinesis is comparable to "The Force" in Star Wars.
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