Charlie is, by far, the most terrifyingly powerful SK character. What she has goes way beyond mere pyrokinesis- it's speculated in the book that she could make the sun explode if she wanted. Given enough time to mature, she could probably just break existence itself. She was barely an adolescent.
Randall Flagg was a shine user. So was Maerlin. I forget the name of the "special" kid who could erase multiverse level beings with a pencil and paper but, yeah... All those examples ignore that SK wrote himself into the Dark Tower universe as an avatar of the creator of the universe. You lack imagination if you think that the "Firestarter" is anywhere near to being the most powerful shine user.
@@similaritiesendhere Can make the sun explode so easily that she may do it by accident... That's unrivaled. There were some limits to Patrick's power- that's who you're referencing I think. He couldn't erase the Crimson King from existence, just render him inert. And RF isn't all that powerful or The Stand would have played out much differently. Charlie is straight up terrifying. As to the limits of my imagination, if they had put Charlie to work at breaking the beams I think she could fry the whole thing. Tower and all. There's no conceivable limit to what she could achieve if she had survived long enough to grow. That's the whole theme of her character and story- unmitigated, raw, and extremely dangerous power. I'd also point out that she doesn't shine like the others, as there is nothing natural about most of her abilities. I think it's possible she may have had an inherently natural shine, but that would just further compound the abilities that were granted to her through psychic engineering. Charlie is still my final answer.
@@richt7525 The kid who could erase "satan" was special education. The Crimson King (Stephen King's satan) was using him to try and destroy the multiverse. Who cares about the sun blowing up when SK wrote about multiverse destroyers? Randall Flagg is a descendant of Maerlin, He's an immortal (partial) who travels between multiverses ending humanity every he goes. We don't know how Earth's he has "apocalypsed". Who cares if a little girl might be able to destroy the sun? Randall Flagg doesn't need a sun. He would eat her (literally).
The Loser’s Club from It also have the Shining, as they psychically warn Mike towards the end of the book as he’s in the hospital from being stabbed by Henry Bowers. Pennywise/It possesses a nurse to try to kill Mike.
You're right that's a good one that I missed! I probably could have added Beverly having visions in the deadlights to the precognition section too. Thanks!
@@TheMytharium also from what I remember from the Carrie book, the character who consoles Carrie as she dies towards the end of the book can read her thoughts I believe. And a baby has telekinesis in the closing pages of that book too I vaguely remember 🙌🏻✨
I hear its a popular theory stan had a strong shine so knew pennywise was pregnant, had the weird thoughts he did before i.t tries to scare him when bird watching knew i.t wasnt dead and didn't completely forget about derry@McK9999
My favorite part about shining is showing how powerful certain people are throughout the Kingverse. The scene from the book version of the shining is awesome. Dick and Danny are sitting in a car and he asks Danny to show him what he can do. He asks him to yell as loud as he can through his mind. Danny says, “HELLO MR. HALLORANN!” And he basically has a seizure and gets a nose bleed. Then he asks Danny if that was as loud as he could and he says no….
I love seeing various characters, creatures, magics, and story aspects being shared across a greater universe than what just a single tale can cover! You did a great job on this! (Thanks a million! 😁👍)
The 2002 version of "Carrie" was originally a movie pilot for a planned TV series about Carrie surviving and going off to hide in Florida and meeting other people with her kind of power. While that didn't pan out, I personally would like to see a series like that, with it starting off with Carrie (since that was the very first book in the Stephen King universe) and her going off to meet most, if not all, of the other characters from the SK-verse, and learning more about her own abilities.
Great job! This is wonderful I always enjoy Stephen King books and I've read several of them all of the ones that you've covered today this is great keep up the good work❤
For sure, the video I’m finishing now is about Roland and the Dark Tower and I definitely have a lot of other King topics I want to cover too. Thank you so much!
Ok so Stephen King would be a great writer for marvel with all of his back stories to all these mutant abilities. This whole video i couldn't help but to think of different xmen characters with these same abilities. What if Steven King multiverse is a more realistic version of how different mutants, good and bad, came to be?
@@leonsprings8517 yeah its a public comment section, which means when someone has a ridiculous opinion, it's completely open for rebuttal. That's how public comment sections work.
@wakenow1 clearly you're butt hurt over something so trivial, so I'll just let you deal with whatever has your panties in a wad. Like I said, he could soooooo write for Marvel and make it edgier. #stephenking&marvelmakingmagic
Carrie is basically a school shooter who wasn't satisfied with just the school and instead of bullets it's telekinesis, most people call them a serial killer but a certain demographic of people idolise her as a hero, weird.
This wasn’t meant to be an exhaustive list of everyone with shine in the King universe, just examples of the types, but those are good ones to add! I admit I am more familiar with the novels than the standalone movies and shows that aren’t based on novels, so it was less that I forgot about them and more that I was not familiar enough with the material to add them. Thanks!
Love the video but I have to disagree about John Coffey... not everyone he heals gets a long life. He accidentally gave Mr. jingles some of his "shine" when Del is being murdered. And then he knowingly give some of his Shine to Paul to show him what Wild Bill did. That Shine transfer is what gave them their long life.
Idk if I’m just overthinking this but I think there is a possibility John uses multiple of these shine abilities like telepathy in several scenes and possibly even telekinesis when he cures Melinda’s brain tumour as the house shakes.
It’s been a long time since I read Dreamcatcher but I’m pretty sure Dudditz had the Shine since he has some telepathy and dream walking. That would have been a good one to add to this video!
I'm thinking all cats may have a form of the Shine or st least its.much much more common than in any other species, as in Sleep walkers the cats consider them mortal enimes. The Cat from hell is also more or less the good guy getting vengeance for torture and murder of many cats in the name of science, was able to kill a hit man sent to kill him and later goes after the people who sent him.
Dudditz would have been a good example for sure! This wasn’t meant to be an exhaustive list of everyone who had shine, just examples of the types of shine, but those are good ones to add to the next one. Thanks!
@@TheMytharium also the blind girl from The Langoliers had some potent powers Telepathy Astral projection Warg - see through other human eyes Premonitions
@@TheMytharium question As an ET would Dudizit be included? I was thinking the human friends Does Dudituz tap into something else even if he can bestow the shine?
This video really does prove that Stephen King is a one trick pony. So many better horror writers but from some reason Mr. Everyone is psychic is considered the "King of Horror."
I really wish that the Shine powers had a connecting tissue other than "child imagination" mentioned in The Dark Towers. Instead of just random kids fighting random monsters with even more random powers, you could imagine Mr. King writing stories about Breakers in different worlds dealing with Lovecraftian monsters (instead of the fight for the Tower across the multiverse kinda mentioned off page).
Charlie is, by far, the most terrifyingly powerful SK character. What she has goes way beyond mere pyrokinesis- it's speculated in the book that she could make the sun explode if she wanted. Given enough time to mature, she could probably just break existence itself. She was barely an adolescent.
Randall Flagg was a shine user. So was Maerlin. I forget the name of the "special" kid who could erase multiverse level beings with a pencil and paper but, yeah...
All those examples ignore that SK wrote himself into the Dark Tower universe as an avatar of the creator of the universe.
You lack imagination if you think that the "Firestarter" is anywhere near to being the most powerful shine user.
@@similaritiesendhere Can make the sun explode so easily that she may do it by accident... That's unrivaled. There were some limits to Patrick's power- that's who you're referencing I think. He couldn't erase the Crimson King from existence, just render him inert. And RF isn't all that powerful or The Stand would have played out much differently.
Charlie is straight up terrifying. As to the limits of my imagination, if they had put Charlie to work at breaking the beams I think she could fry the whole thing. Tower and all. There's no conceivable limit to what she could achieve if she had survived long enough to grow. That's the whole theme of her character and story- unmitigated, raw, and extremely dangerous power.
I'd also point out that she doesn't shine like the others, as there is nothing natural about most of her abilities. I think it's possible she may have had an inherently natural shine, but that would just further compound the abilities that were granted to her through psychic engineering. Charlie is still my final answer.
She basically the Phoenix from xmen?
@@richt7525 The kid who could erase "satan" was special education. The Crimson King (Stephen King's satan) was using him to try and destroy the multiverse. Who cares about the sun blowing up when SK wrote about multiverse destroyers?
Randall Flagg is a descendant of Maerlin, He's an immortal (partial) who travels between multiverses ending humanity every he goes. We don't know how Earth's he has "apocalypsed". Who cares if a little girl might be able to destroy the sun? Randall Flagg doesn't need a sun. He would eat her (literally).
@@leonsprings8517 She's omega level Pyro. The kid who erased the Crimson King was Scarlet Witch with full control of her powers (reality warper).
The Loser’s Club from It also have the Shining, as they psychically warn Mike towards the end of the book as he’s in the hospital from being stabbed by Henry Bowers. Pennywise/It possesses a nurse to try to kill Mike.
You're right that's a good one that I missed! I probably could have added Beverly having visions in the deadlights to the precognition section too. Thanks!
@@TheMytharium also from what I remember from the Carrie book, the character who consoles Carrie as she dies towards the end of the book can read her thoughts I believe. And a baby has telekinesis in the closing pages of that book too I vaguely remember 🙌🏻✨
You think they all do naturally, or could it be like Dreamcatcher where one or so have it but the others get a pseudo form of it by association?
I believe the Losers have a "collective" shine, latent individually, but likely amplified when together.
I hear its a popular theory stan had a strong shine so knew pennywise was pregnant, had the weird thoughts he did before i.t tries to scare him when bird watching knew i.t wasnt dead and didn't completely forget about derry@McK9999
My favorite part about shining is showing how powerful certain people are throughout the Kingverse. The scene from the book version of the shining is awesome. Dick and Danny are sitting in a car and he asks Danny to show him what he can do. He asks him to yell as loud as he can through his mind. Danny says, “HELLO MR. HALLORANN!” And he basically has a seizure and gets a nose bleed. Then he asks Danny if that was as loud as he could and he says no….
I love seeing various characters, creatures, magics, and story aspects being shared across a greater universe than what just a single tale can cover! You did a great job on this!
(Thanks a million! 😁👍)
I'm so glad you liked it, thank you!
@@TheMytharium Yes sir! 👍💯
This reminded me of just how remarkable Rebecca Ferguson was as Rose the Hat.
In the book, at least, the mother in "Firestarter" has mild telekinetic abilities that she doesn't recognize.
The 2002 version of "Carrie" was originally a movie pilot for a planned TV series about Carrie surviving and going off to hide in Florida and meeting other people with her kind of power. While that didn't pan out, I personally would like to see a series like that, with it starting off with Carrie (since that was the very first book in the Stephen King universe) and her going off to meet most, if not all, of the other characters from the SK-verse, and learning more about her own abilities.
Absolutley phenominal mate great video
Thank you so much! Making videos like this is very new to me so that means a ton, I really appreciate it.
There's also the blokes from Dreamcatcher. They show abilities beyond what you listed like finding objects and enhanced memory
Great vid...just wish it was longer and even more in depth, but still great. Thank you.
Excellent video dude !!!!! 👍👏👏👏
Thank you I’m so glad you liked it!
That was fascinating and has introduced me to works by King that I never engaged. Well done and thank you!
Carrie is the homie
This is a great video i just found. Keep this up, and you'll go far, son.
Thank you so much!
Great job! This is wonderful I always enjoy Stephen King books and I've read several of them all of the ones that you've covered today this is great keep up the good work❤
Thank you so much!
Good stuff, I subbed just for this. I hope you do more King stuff. Im obsessed with his universe.
For sure, the video I’m finishing now is about Roland and the Dark Tower and I definitely have a lot of other King topics I want to cover too.
Thank you so much!
I enjoyed this quite a bit. Good job ❤
Thank you!
Ok so Stephen King would be a great writer for marvel with all of his back stories to all these mutant abilities. This whole video i couldn't help but to think of different xmen characters with these same abilities. What if Steven King multiverse is a more realistic version of how different mutants, good and bad, came to be?
Marvel is kindergarten compared to kings work. Thats insulting that you would even compare them.
@wakenow1 calm down there booster seat...geez I wasn't comparing anything. It's literally what the comment section is for
@@leonsprings8517 yeah its a public comment section, which means when someone has a ridiculous opinion, it's completely open for rebuttal. That's how public comment sections work.
@wakenow1 clearly you're butt hurt over something so trivial, so I'll just let you deal with whatever has your panties in a wad. Like I said, he could soooooo write for Marvel and make it edgier.
#stephenking&marvelmakingmagic
@@wakenow1 clearly reading for comprehension is an issue for you
Carrie is basically a school shooter who wasn't satisfied with just the school and instead of bullets it's telekinesis, most people call them a serial killer but a certain demographic of people idolise her as a hero, weird.
Weird.
John Coffey only gave extended life to Paul(so he could see Wild Bill’s crime) and Mr. Jingles by accident. Hal’s wife passed.
Good stuff 👍🏻
You forgot rose red and stome of the century?. Annie? From rose red has to be the most powerful telekinetic in all of Stephen King movies
This wasn’t meant to be an exhaustive list of everyone with shine in the King universe, just examples of the types, but those are good ones to add! I admit I am more familiar with the novels than the standalone movies and shows that aren’t based on novels, so it was less that I forgot about them and more that I was not familiar enough with the material to add them. Thanks!
So from what I get General from cats eye has the Shine.
Love the video but I have to disagree about John Coffey... not everyone he heals gets a long life. He accidentally gave Mr. jingles some of his "shine" when Del is being murdered. And then he knowingly give some of his Shine to Paul to show him what Wild Bill did. That Shine transfer is what gave them their long life.
Great point, I’ll add a correction to clarify that. Thank you!
Idk if I’m just overthinking this but I think there is a possibility John uses multiple of these shine abilities like telepathy in several scenes and possibly even telekinesis when he cures Melinda’s brain tumour as the house shakes.
I have the shine
I love in dr sleep the story about his horrible grandfather.what is more horrible than that.
Did anyone in dream catcher have the shine
It’s been a long time since I read Dreamcatcher but I’m pretty sure Dudditz had the Shine since he has some telepathy and dream walking. That would have been a good one to add to this video!
I'm thinking all cats may have a form of the Shine or st least its.much much more common than in any other species, as in Sleep walkers the cats consider them mortal enimes. The Cat from hell is also more or less the good guy getting vengeance for torture and murder of many cats in the name of science, was able to kill a hit man sent to kill him and later goes after the people who sent him.
Cats are also immune to The Captain Trips virus
Dreamcatchers?
Langoliers?
Dudditz would have been a good example for sure! This wasn’t meant to be an exhaustive list of everyone who had shine, just examples of the types of shine, but those are good ones to add to the next one. Thanks!
@@TheMytharium also the blind girl from The Langoliers had some potent powers
Telepathy
Astral projection
Warg - see through other human eyes
Premonitions
@@TheMytharium question
As an ET would Dudizit be included?
I was thinking the human friends
Does Dudituz tap into something else even if he can bestow the shine?
Many incorrect facts
Sorry I missed some things, what was wrong?
Sheemee was in the books before the 4th one. He was the weed eater in the town Roland shot up.
You said many that's only one@@JonEnowhere
And what else? I’m curious, love King.
@@JonEnowhere that was sheb. You're very wrong.
This video really does prove that Stephen King is a one trick pony. So many better horror writers but from some reason Mr. Everyone is psychic is considered the "King of Horror."
I really wish that the Shine powers had a connecting tissue other than "child imagination" mentioned in The Dark Towers. Instead of just random kids fighting random monsters with even more random powers, you could imagine Mr. King writing stories about Breakers in different worlds dealing with Lovecraftian monsters (instead of the fight for the Tower across the multiverse kinda mentioned off page).
Who would you say is your favourite horror author?
@@CamelNectarClive Barker
Just because his characters share 1 ability does not make him a one trick pony lol.