Psychic

Psychics are often used in stories in fandoms containing canon psychics (such as That's So Raven or Medium) or for canon sources lacking psychics or supernatural elements in general (such as Sherlock BBC). Psychics appear regularly in fantasy fictional fandoms.
==Canon==
A psychic is a person who claims to have an ability to perceive information hidden from the normal senses through extrasensory perception (ESP)Wikipedia: Psychic article which is also known as the Sixth Sense.
===List of Canon Psychic Fandoms===
This list is for fandoms that focus on psychics. Note: What constitutes inclusion on this list may vary among fans. 
* The 4400
* 6th Sense
* Babylon 5
* Carrie
* Charmed
* Darkover
* The Dead Zone
* Doctor Who
* Ghost (1990)
* Ghost Whisperer
* The Glades
* Harry Potter
* Hemlock Grove
* Judge Dredd (Psi-Div)
* Medium
* Millennium
* Poltergeist
* Rose Red
* The Shining
* Supernatural
* That's So Raven
* The Tomorrow People
* Wonderfalls
* X-Men
The below list of fandoms that focus on character pretending or did pretend to be psychics:
* Psych
* The Mentalist
==In Fandom==
Psychics in fandom is generally used for another name for telepaths, and is more commonly used to focused more on the known psychic powers. This is especially common in the Marvel Fandom such as the X-Men, due to Jean Grey and Charles Xavier are canonically referred to psychic mutants.
The trope where a character shows up as a fortuneteller aka a psychic - giving love advice or precognition often appears in fanfics, this is often intertwined with various mediums where the psychic can communicate with the dead (such as Melinda Gordon of Ghost Whisperer or Allison DuBois of Medium). Also what happens with the fortuneteller type trope, characters often pretend to be psychic (such as Patrick Jane of The Mentalist did prior to the series beginning and the same goes with Shawn Spencer of Psych).
Another trope is for a character to become a psychic which is usually because aliens or some sort of accident or experiment, this leads them to having psychic abilities, often a type of telepathy or telekinesis.
Popular fandoms are for psychics tagged works are X-Men: First Class, Supernatural, Star Trek (2009), Weiß Kreuz, Doctor Who, Sherlock BBC, and The Avengers Movieverse, with Teen Wolf and Stargate Atlantis close behindAccording to AO3 pages as of 28 June 2014; X-Men: First Class lists 361, Supernatural lists 233, Star Trek 2009 lists 134, Weiß Kreuz lists 123, Doctor Who/New Who (155), Sherlock (TV) lists 102, The Avengers Movieverse lists 89, Teen Wolf (TV) lists 69, and Stargate Atlantis lists 59 works with the tag "psychic"..
==Examples==
Castle/Firefly crossover:
* Connection Series by Twisha, Despite never having met, two people in the 'verse share a strange connection. (Richard Castle and Mal Reynolds)
Firefly:
* Divergence by deadlybride, rated Mature, She needs to show him, and this is the only way she knows how. (River/Simon)
Marvel Cinematic Universe:
* the only thing that's real by Merideath, rated Mature, Darcy Lewis was kidnapped and experimented on turning her into an psychic and leaving her with amnesia and a little bit crazy. (Darcy/Steve)
* White Noise by boombangbing, rated Teen, Darcy Lewis meets another mind-like individual. Literally. (Darcy/Steve)
==Archives and Communities==
*Psychic tagged works at AO3
==References==