Thread:Midoki24/@comment-4890809-20150728000802/@comment-4890809-20150728024230

Actually, in comic book terms, it's been well accepted that telepathy is all of those abilities combined. Especially in Marvel.

Mind control, illusions, mental blasts are all labeled as telepathic abilities, just more advanced than the basics of mind reading and mental communication which all telepaths automatically have.

Yes, mind control can be achieved through pheromones, technology or magic. But when you're thinking of the psychic type, it's well know that it's under telepathy and can even be called telepathic mind control.

Same goes for Mastermind and his daughters from Marvel. They can create "telepathic illusions" but do not have mind reading / mental communication to be considered telepaths since those two are the most basic ones. Although, the Mastermind daughters developed them later on and became telepaths that can do the basics as well as cast illusions (but not control minds)

My point is that, a lot of fictional telepaths are limited to the basics. And then there a lot of other characters with "telepathic abilities" but aren't telepaths. But the powerful ones like Charles Xavier, MM, Jean Grey and etc. are the ones who can do almost all of them.

What I'm suggesting here is that, at least in the main telepathy page, it is stated *telepathic* mind control is / can be a subset of telepathy instead of considered an entirely separate power. As in the mind control page. (I actually did say it can be acquired through magic, but that it was mainly under telepathy. Magic can also be used to perform telekinesis or set things on fire etc. So all in all, magic should be the "alternative" to the scientifically explainable abilities)

Also, I've never said telekinesis was telepathy, only mind control. Which was why I never included it in my edit. I just didn't think it was necessary to state that the two powers often come in pair.