Board Thread:Fan Speculations/@comment-187.65.161.190-20141128030616

Through the series, it's hinted many times that Johan may have some sort of supernatural abilities, but in the end, nothing out of the ordinary was shown in concrete proof, not even speculated by the characters. It seems like Johan has at least, a certain power of mind control, or suggestion into other peoples thoughts. For a stretch, he may have the ability to see a bit near in the future, or to have knowledge of events happening in the present that he doesn't need to witness himself. I was quite surprised that there was no mention of anything like this in this forums.

A few things that suggest he may have such powers:

-Everytime Tenma had an opportunity to shoot him, he kinda looses his mind. In the library, Johan walked right past Tenma and Tenma was aiming at Schuwald and Anna without noticing. He knows when Tenma is spying him (and looks right back at him).

-He makes children want to play a game of life and death at the roof of buildings.

-He made people commit suicide in suspicious manners (including the mass suicides and murders in Kinderheim 511).

-When he looks in the eyes of Schuwald, it seems Schuwald had a deep understanding of all about Johan.

-He makes his sister shoot him and it doesn't look like she was willing to do so.

-The behaviour of Peter Jurgens makes me believe that he knew (or was convinced without need of proof) about Johan's more-than-human abilities. He also seems to have made Peter think that Johan actually looks like Tenma, and then Peter kills himself, in a very, very bizarre situation, apparently without reason.

-He makes several serial killers want to kill certain people, which he had merely written the names in sand, and these people are never the kind of people that these killers wanted to ever target.

-The dream Tenma has when he is sitting on the side of (adult) Johan's hospital bed during the coma, may as well be Johan talking to Tenma through mind powers.

It also looks that the gesture of putting his index finger on the center of his forehead may have something to do with it. In certain cases like Tenma not having the courage to shoot him, it may be sooorta reasonably explained that people hesitate in intimidation, due to Johan's calm posture, conviction, never changing expression and body language (or lack of) which is so confident and so unnatural, that it makes you doubt the reality of the situation.

I may have forgot other examples, wich you are invited to comment about, but I guess most important stuff is here. I watched the anime only, but it's quite close to the manga, so I don't think it matters too much. What do you think? 