User:DocM/Ability usage list

This is a complete ability usage list for use on the "examples of powers" pages.

Ability supercharging

• Future Ando supercharges his own ability and zaps Future Hiro, seemingly killing him. (The Second Coming)
• Ando slams his hand on a desk in Mohinder's loft, creating a slight discharge. (Dual)
• Ando accidentally supercharges Matt's telepathy, allowing him to hear the thoughts of everybody in New York. (Dual)
• Ando accidentally supercharges Daphne's super speed, sending her backwards through time to witness a conversation a few minutes before. (Dual)
• Ando holds Daphne and sends her sixteen years in the past, rescuing Hiro from Kaito. They then return to the present. (Dual)

Alchemy

• Bob turns his spoon into pure gold for Mohinder. (Four Months Later...)
• Sylar turns a gun into gold to taunt Elle. (The Butterfly Effect)

Body insertion

• Peter is placed in the body of Jesse Murphy by his future self. (The Second Coming)
• Future Peter forcefully expells Peter from Jesse's body. (One of Us, One of Them)

Dream manipulation

• Sanjog helps Mohinder in his dreams, showing him a dream where he argued with his father concerning his father's research. (Seven Minutes to Midnight)
• Sanjog shows Mohinder another dream where Chandra concludes his trip to New York might be a bad idea but his mother convinces him otherwise and mentions a sister, Shanti. Sanjog is seen in this dream and asks Mohinder for his ball back. (Seven Minutes to Midnight)
• Sanjog reveals to Mohinder how Chandra was killed by Sylar in his taxi cab in New York. Sanjog is seen by Mohinder after the taxi cab disappears, and Sanjob reveals a key, which Mohinder takes. Mohinder then wakes up. (Seven Minutes to Midnight)
• Sanjog makes Mohinder hear Nirand's thoughts on Freud once again, then leads him outside to see a conversation between Nirand and Chandra about Sanjog, and another with Mohinder reading Activating Evolution before it was finished. (Homecoming)

Empathic mimicry

• Precognitive dreaming: Peter has a dream of flying around the world when he awoken by Simone. (Genesis)
• Flight: Peter flies with his brother as Nathan tries to rescue him. (Genesis)
• Flight: Peter hovers above the ground as Nathan is nearby. (Don't Look Back)
• Space-time manipulation: Peter is able to move as time is frozen by Future Hiro. (Collision, Hiros)
• Precognition: Peter allows his eyes to glaze over and finishes Isaac's painting of Jackie's death at Sylar's hands. (Hiros)
• Precognitive dreaming: Peter has a dream of conversing with Charles about his ability to fly. (Better Halves)
• Telekinesis: Peter unknowingly diverts a couple locker doors thrown by Sylar. (Homecoming)
• Rapid cell regeneration: Peter coughs as he returns to life having absorbed the ability from a nearby Claire. (Homecoming)
• Precognitive dreaming: Peter dreams about the accident involving Nathan and Heidi. (Six Months Ago)
• Precognitive dreaming: Peter has a strange dream involving Nathan transforming into Sylar. (Fallout)
• Telepathy: Peter absorbs Matt's ability, causing an intensely painful feedback for both. (Fallout)
• Telepathy: Peter hears Audrey's thoughts about the cheerleader's death. (Fallout)
• Telepathy: Peter hears Matt think about Peter's mind reading capabilities. (Fallout)
• Precognitive dreaming: Peter dreams about New York being completely empty, with several cars with their doors open. Mohinder climbs out of one car and runs away from Peter. Matt tells D.L., Niki and Micah to quickly leave the area, trying to keep Peter away. Claire runs up to Peter as Nathan exits his campaign building. Simone tries to go to Peter, but Isaac holds her back. Hiro and Ando watch in silence. Claire apologises to Peter and runs away from him as he sees his hands turn nuclear. Nathan continues walking towards him as Peter explodes. (Fallout)

Enhanced memory

• Charlie successfully remembers where Ghandi was buried to answer a crossword puzzle question: Kanyakumari. (Seven Minutes to Midnight)
• Charlie answers an esoteric question asked by Lloyd to test her memory. (Seven Minutes to Midnight)
• Charlie learns Japanese in one week after reading a phrase book. (Seven Minutes to Midnight)
• Charlie learns Japanese quickly when taught by Hiro. (Six Months Ago)

Enhanced strength

• Niki, during Jessica's control, rips apart two thugs in her garage. (Genesis)
• Niki, as Jessica, slams Linderman's henchman into the wall of an elevator and easily overpowers him. (Collision)
• Niki, as Jessica, breaks into the hideout of the poker players and rips them apart with her bare hands. (Better Halves)
• Niki, as Jessica, uses her briefcase full of money to slam D.L. straight into a wardrobe, smashing it to bits. (Better Halves)
• Niki, as Jessica, pulls D.L. out of the cupboard and throws him onto the bed. (Better Halves)
• Niki, as Jessica, breaks a mirror in her bedroom. (Nothing to Hide)
• Niki, as Jessica, elbows Hal, lifts him into the air by his throat and then throws him onto the bed violently. (Six Months Ago)
• Niki, as Jessica, slams a car door shut, causing the window to smash into several pieces. (Fallout)
• Niki, as Jessica, kicks D.L. far away from her gun. (Fallout)
• Niki, as Jessica, elbows Micah far away into a set of rocks, injuring his elbow. (Fallout)

Flight

• Nathan flies to rescue Peter from his fall, when they both fly mid-air. (Genesis)
• Peter hovers above the ground without realising with Nathan nearby. (Don't Look Back)
• Nathan blasts upwards to escape Noah and the Haitian, then shoots across the sky at supersonic speeds, having a rough landing outside the Fly By Night Diner. (Hiros)
• Nathan involuntarily flies out of his car and leaves Heidi to crash into a set of barrels at an exit ramp. (Six Months Ago)

Induced radioactivity

• Somebody (either Sylar or Ted) explodes in downtown New York, wiping out the whole city. (Don't Look Back)
• Ted's home is filled with high doses of radiation. (Nothing to Hide)
• Ted, while holding onto a nurse as a hostage, leaves a burn scar on her arm. (Nothing to Hide)
• Ted holds onto a glass of water and boils it within a few seconds. (Seven Minutes to Midnight)

Intuitive aptitude

• Sylar uses his intuitive aptitude to work out James Walker's ability of freezing and steals it for himself. (Don't Look Back)
• Sylar opens Charlie's head and absorbs her ability. (Seven Minutes to Midnight)
• Sylar successfully fixes Chandra's watch, knowing it was two seconds slow simply by listening to it. (Six Months Ago)
• Sylar kills Brian Davis and examines his brain, learning how to use Brian's telekinesis. (Six Months Ago)

Mental manipulation

• The Haitian prevents Matt from reading his mind. (One Giant Leap)
• The Haitian stops Matt from reading Noah's mind. (Collision)
• The Haitian erases all of Brody's memories, including his own name. (Hiros)
• The Haitian removes Eden's persuasive abilities, rendering her commands to Noah useless. (Six Months Ago)
• The Haitian blocks Matt's telepathy to keep Noah and Claire's secrets about Homecoming safe. (Fallout)
• The Haitian removes Lyle's knowledge of Claire's ability. (Fallout)
• The Haitian blocks Matt's attempts to read Noah's mind, but Matt manages to get one word: Sylar. (Fallout)
• The Haitian removes Zach's knowledge of Claire's ability and their entire friendship. (Fallout)

Persuasion

• Eden convinces Isaac to paint the future for Noah. (Seven Minutes to Midnight)
• Eden persuades Sylar to go to sleep. He falls unconscious shortly afterwards. (Homecoming)
• Eden tells Matt to get back into his car and eat a dozen donuts. He is still eating the donuts in the morning. (Six Months Ago)

Phasing

• D.L. sneaks into the the Sanderses' home undetected. (Hiros)
• D.L. reaches his hand through a locked door and proceeds to unlock it. (Better Halves)
• D.L. hides in another cupboard, then reaches out of it to grab Jessica. (Better Halves)
• D.L. reaches his hands through Jessica's chest to her neck, knocking her unconscious. (Better Halves)
• D.L. phases his hand through a burning car's window and unlocks it from the inside. (Nothing to Hide)
• D.L. allows a bullet fired by Jessica to phase directly through his head, popping the car tire behind him. (Fallout)
• D.L. unlocks a cabin's door by reaching his hand through it. (Fallout)

Precognition

• Isaac has painted Ted using his ability to heat up a glass of water, which he subsequently destroys. (Genesis)
• Isaac has painted the eclipse hours before it happens. (Genesis)
• Isaac has painted a bus explosion, which he realises came true due to the latest newspaper. (Genesis)
• Isaac has painted the train wreck, which he notices to be true when he watches news coverage on it. (Genesis)
• Isaac paints a mural of the explosion on his loft's floor while on heroin. (Genesis)
• In the "explosion future", Isaac releases a prophetic issue of 9th Wonders!. (Don't Look Back)
• Peter idly draws a skickman doodle of himself hovering and Nathan watching. (Don't Look Back)
• Isaac looks over one of his sketches of Peter and Simone kissing in the rain. (One Giant Leap)
• Isaac, with his eyes now glazed, envisions Claire escaping from Sylar and paints it onto an empty canvas. (Collision)
• Isaac has fully completed the Homecoming series of paintings. (Hiros)
• Peter allows his eyes to glaze over and finishes the painting of Jackie's death at Sylar's hands. (Hiros)
• Isaac looks over his painting of Jessica, finding the Symbol on it hidden underneath a layer of paint. (Better Halves)
• Isaac, his eyes once again glazed, paints the Exploding Man after being told to by Eden. (Seven Minutes to Midnight, Homecoming)
• Isaac's missing painting is of Peter dead at Homecoming. (Homecoming)
• Isaac sketches several drawings of Ando, Hiro and Charlie. (Fallout)
• Isaac paints the Hiro and the Dinosaur painting without any drugs to aid him. (Fallout)

Precognitive dreaming

• Peter dreams of flying around the world. He is awoken by Simone. (Genesis)
• Peter dreams of a conversation between himself and Charles, leading to Peter revealing his ability to fly. (Better Halves)
• Peter dreams about the accident involving both Nathan and Heidi. (Six Months Ago)
• Peter dreams that he is receiving advice from Nathan, but soon Nathan transforms into Sylar. (Fallout)
• Peter dreams about New York being completely empty, with several cars with their doors open. Mohinder climbs out of one car and runs away from Peter. Matt tells D.L., Niki and Micah to quickly leave the area, trying to keep Peter away. Claire runs up to Peter as Nathan exits his campaign building. Simone tries to go to Peter, but Isaac holds her back. Hiro and Ando watch in silence. Claire apologises to Peter and runs away from him as he sees his hands turn nuclear. Nathan continues walking towards him as Peter explodes. (Fallout)

Rapid cell regeneration

• Claire jumps off an abandoned oil refinery and snaps several of her bones, but then pushes some back into place as her scars heal. (Genesis)
• Claire notices her rib cage sticking out and pushes it back into place as it heals. (Genesis)
• Claire rushes into a burning train wreck and emerges without any wounds. (Genesis)
• Claire rescues her ring from the garbage disposal but mutilates her hand in the process, which quickly heals. (Genesis)
• Claire's neck is broken after a tackle by Brody, but she twists her neck back into shape and heals. (Don't Look Back)
• Claire is killed after nearly being raped when a branch is impaled into the back of her head. She later revives in a morgue after the branch is removed. (One Giant Leap, Collision)
• Claire recovers from her injuries after she and Brody crashed his car into a wall. (Hiros)
• Claire burns her hands on a hot tray of muffins, but her hands heal quickly before anybody notices. (Better Halves)
• Claire is stapled by Lyle in her hand. When she removes the staple, the wound heals, scaring Lyle. (Nothing to Hide)
• Claire cracks her bones and regenerates after Sylar throws her into a wall. (Homecoming)
• Peter coughs as he returns to life as Claire watches in shock. Peter cracks his bones back into place. (Homecoming)
• Claire's hand injury gained earlier has completely healed by the time Noah checks it. (Six Months Ago)

Space-time manipulation

• Hiro stares at his clock and makes it reverse by one second. (Genesis)
• Hiro teleports into the womens' bathroom in a local bar. (Genesis)
• Hiro time travels five weeks into the future. (Genesis, Don't Look Back)
• Hiro avoids an explosion by returning back to the present. (Don't Look Back)
• Hiro freezes time before a truck collides with a girl. In this moment, Hiro pushes the girl out of the truck's path towards safety when time resumes. (One Giant Leap)
• Hiro stops time and moves the roulette ball in order to allow Ando to win. He also saves a glass which was in the process of being tipped over. (Collision)
• Hiro freezes time in order to switch Ando's cards with a high roller's to ensure Ando's victory. (Collision)
• Future Hiro travels back in time by five years to talk with Peter and give him a message. (Collision, Hiros)
• Hiro stops time in the middle of a car game between Ando, Ernie, the lowlife and the high roller, re-arranges the cards and re-deals, giving Ando a straight. (Better Halves)
• Hiro freezes time as a car explodes. He walks around and manages to push D.L. and the woman he is saving to safety. (Nothing to Hide)
• Hiro travels backwards in time by six months to save Charlie. (Seven Minutes to Midnight, Homecoming, Six Months Ago)
• Hiro collects a bouquet of flowers two blocks from the Burnt Toast Diner for Charlie in a second. He also finishes Charlie's order seconds after it is ordered. (Six Months Ago)
• Hiro stops time and creates one thousand origami cranes, placing them around himself and Charlie to prove his ability. (Six Months Ago)
• Hiro accidentally travels back into the present before he is able to kiss Charlie, teleporting from Midland, Texas to Tokyo, Japan. (Six Months Ago)

Technopathy

• Micah places his hand on an out-of-order pay phone and calls Jessica with his current location. (Nothing to Hide)

Telekinesis

• Mrs. Walker is seen messily attached to the wall with kitchen utensils. (Don't Look Back)
• James Walker is seen with his brain removed after his head has been cut open. (Don't Look Back)
• Sylar has killed Isaac with his telekinesis. (Don't Look Back)
• Sylar forces Audrey to point her gun to her head. (One Giant Leap)
• Sylar survives several shots fired by Matt. (One Giant Leap)
• Sylar disappears out of sight with his telekinetic levitation. (One Giant Leap)
• Sylar lazily pulls his coffee cup into his hand. (Seven Minutes to Midnight)
• Sylar cuts open Charlie's head and steals her brain. (Seven Minutes to Midnight)
• Sylar smashes his hands through the glass window in Chandra's taxi cab. (Seven Minutes to Midnight)
• Sylar mistakenly slices open Jackie's head. (Homecoming)
• Sylar slams Claire into the wall, breaking several of her bones. (Homecoming)
• Sylar throws several locker doors at Peter. (Homecoming)
• Peter deflects a couple of the locker doors without realising. (Homecoming)
• Sylar softens his fall off Union Wells High School and survives. (Homecoming)
• Sylar telekinetically pushes a glass across Chandra's table and accidentally smashes it on the wall. (Six Months Ago)
• Sylar pulls Eden through his cell's glass window. (Fallout)
• Sylar waves his hand and throws Noah into his cell window. (Distractions)
• Sylar moves his finger, causing Sandra's phone to be flung into the wall and destroyed. (Distractions)
• Sylar again moves his finger, pushing Sandra into a glass cabinet. (Distractions)
• Sylar telekinetically removes Zane's brain. (Run!)
• Sylar breaks and levitates multiple bottles of beer and fatally jams them into the back of Rudy. (Road Kill)
• Sylar levitates himself to safety after driving his newly acquired truck off the road. (Road Kill)
• Peter accesses Sylar's ability and stops Claude's pole mid-air, snapping it in half. (Unexpected)
• Sylar telekinetically removes Dale's brain for examination. (Unexpected)

Telepathy

• Matt hears the thoughts of a frightened little girl and enters the house searching for the source. He finds her underneath the stairs. (Don't Look Back)
• Matt hears Elisa believe that Matt simply "lucked out". (Don't Look Back)
• Matt learns Sylar's name from Audrey. (Don't Look Back)
• Matt responds to a question which Audrey thinks of and is arrested afterwards. (Don't Look Back)
• Matt learns from Audrey's mind that nobody believes in her. (One Giant Leap)
• Matt overhears his wife's thoughts wishing he would leave. He then leaves. (One Giant Leap)
• Matt decides not have small talk with the bartender after hearing his thoughts. (One Giant Leap)
• Matt tries to make a gesture towards a fellow bar patron but hears his thoughts and stops. (One Giant Leap)
• Matt listens in on one man's attempt to woo a woman, and laughs at the results. (One Giant Leap)
• Matt hears depressing thoughts from another bar patron. (One Giant Leap)
• Matt fails to overcome the Haitian's mental block. (One Giant Leap)
• Matt is unable to read Noah's mind due to the Haitian's presence, but eventually gets one word: Claire. (Collision)
• Matt overhears Janice's concerns about his safety. (Hiros)
• Matt listens to the song which Janice has in her head and plays it on the hi-fi. (Hiros)
• Matt successfully finishes Janice's sentence at the same time as her. (Hiros)
• Matt learns that Janice wants both coffee and ice cream after their intense love making. (Hiros)
• Matt hears several thoughts from shoppers as he wanders around a convenience store, eventually zoning in on a potential robber. (Hiros)
• Matt is overpowered by the scared thoughts of patrons in the conveniencee store, falling unconscious due to the strain. (Hiros)
• Matt hears his wife's suspicious thoughts. (Nothing to Hide)
• Matt tells Ted his wife's dying thoughts. (Nothing to Hide)
• Matt learns that his friend, Tom McHenry, is having an affair with Janice. He then punches him in the face. (Nothing to Hide)
• Matt hears Ted's story of how he came to have the marks on his shoulder. (Seven Minutes to Midnight)
• Matt catches a brief thought from Janice calling him her hero. (Six Months Ago)
• Matt attempts to read Peter's mind, but Peter absorbs the ability at the same time, causing an intensely painful feedback for both. (Fallout)
• Matt pulls the phrase "save the cheerleader" from Peter's head. (Fallout)
• Peter hears Audrey think that the cheerleader is dead. (Fallout)
• Peter hears Matt contemplate Peter's mind reading capabilities. (Fallout)
• Matt attempts to read Claire's mind, but is unable to overcome a white noise. (Fallout)
• Matt overhears Audrey's stray thought that he is cute. (Fallout)
• Matt manages to overcome the Haitian's white noise and gets one word: Sylar. (Fallout)