List of abilities

Evolved humans, whether natural or synthetic, possess extraordinary abilities.

List of Confirmed Abilities

	Power	Possessed by	Absorbed by
	Ability absorption	Arthur Petrelli, Tommy Clark
	The ability to steal another's ability, rendering them powerless
	Ability augmentation	Paulette Hawkins
	The ability to augment other evolved human abilities
	Ability replication	Peter Petrelli (synthetic)	Draph
	The ability to replicate one ability at a time through physical contact
	Accelerated probability	Santiago, Edward
	The ability to predict the probability of a certain event correctly and accelerate one's self to achieve those predictions
	Acid secretion	Leonard Cushing
	The ability to generate highly corrosive fluids
	Acidic blood	Mary Krause
	The ability to have acidic blood
	Activation and deactivation	Matt Parkman, Jr.
	The ability to activate and deactivate various objects
	Adoptive muscle memory	Monica Dawson
	The ability to replicate any physical action after seeing it performed
	Age shifting	The Russian
	The ability to change one's own age
	Age transferal	Leona Mills
	The ability to transfer the aging and life force to and from an object and make the user younger or older
	Alchemy	Bob Bishop, Sylvia	Sylar
	The ability to change the molecular composition of any material to gold
	Alejandro's ability	Alejandro Herrera
	The ability to absorb and counter the effects of Maya's poison emission
	Animal control	Markus Gaines
	The ability to control and communicate with animals
	Appearance alteration	Connie Logan
	The ability to change the skin, hair, and vocal cords of another person
	Aquatic breathing	Alex Woolsly, Kevin Wrigley
	The ability to breathe underwater
	Aura absorption	Linda Tavara
	The ability to see auras and take the lives and powers of others
	Bliss and horror	Guillame
	The ability to bring about feelings of bliss and horror in others
	Bone spike protrusion	Perrin Crocker
	The ability to create bone spikes that protrude from one's body
	Chlorine gas exudation	Tina Ramierez
	The ability to exhale chlorine gas instead of carbon dioxide
	Clairsentience	Bridget Bailey	Sylar
	The ability to perceive the history of an object by touching it
	Clairvoyance	Molly Walker, Adam Soo Hoo
	The ability to see distant people and things
	Cloaking	Teddy
	The ability to cause things to disappear and reappear
	Cloning	Julien Dumont, Evan, Magdalena Muller, Eli, M. F. Harris
	The ability to replicate oneself and produce identical clones
	Constriction	The Constrictor
	The ability to mimic the attributes of a constricting snake, including squeezing extra-tightly with one's body, numbing with one's touch and gender neutrality
	Crumpling	Marcus
	The ability to crumple and deform objects
	Cyberpathy	Hana Gitelman, Richard Drucker, Myles Stevens
	The ability to intercept, generate, and interpret electronic, digital, and radio transmissions with one's mind
	Danger sensing	Evan Davis
	The ability to sense danger
	David's ability	David Sullivan (synthetic)
	The ability to growl and charge at others viciously
	Dehydration	Rollo Fusor's accomplice
	The ability to remove the water contained in objects or people by force of will
	Disintegration	Tom Miller	Sylar
	The ability to disintegrate objects without physical contact
	Disintegration touch	Felicia Brooks
	Felicia's name for her ability
	Dream manipulation	Sanjog Iyer, Fredrick Ganes
	The ability to manipulate the dreams of others
	Elasticity	Piper
	The ability to to stretch, deform, expand, and contract one's body
	Electric manipulation	Agent, Elle Bishop, Cooper, "Biker Woman"	Future Peter1, Peter Petrelli (lost), Arthur Petrelli, Sylar
	The ability to create and direct electrical arcs
	Electrical absorption	Teenage patient, Benjamin Franklin
	The ability to absorb and subsequently release electrical energy
	Elemental control	Malina
	The ability to control Earth's elements
	Empathic manipulation	Joseph Sullivan, Syn Anders, Morgan Harvey
	The ability to control emotions
	Empathic mimicry	Peter Petrelli (lost)	Arthur Petrelli
	The ability to duplicate the powers of other evolved humans within proximity and reproduce them at will when thinking about the original source of the power
	Empathy	Lydia	Sylar
	The ability to feel the emotions, thoughts, hopes, desires, and dreams of others
	Energy absorption, transference, and redirection	Mindy Sprague
	The ability to absorb, transfer, and redirect energy
	Enhanced hearing	Dale Smither	Sylar (lost)
	The ability to hear sounds beyond normal limits
	Enhanced memory	Charlie Andrews, Matt Neuenberg, Katherine Murry, Pacy McNeil, Trevor Tanaka	Sylar (lost, alternative timeline)
	The ability to quickly absorb and accurately retain great amounts of information
	Enhanced strength	Niki Sanders (synthetic), Knox, Michael Fitzgerald, Scott (synthetic), Mohinder Suresh (synthetic), Pushing woman, Oscar Gutierrez, James Dearing, Karen Eriksen	Peter Petrelli (lost)
	The ability to exert greater than normal physical force
	Enhanced strength and senses	Mohinder Suresh (synthetic, corrected)
	The ability to possess enhanced human senses, instinct, and strength
	Enhanced synesthesia	Emma Coolidge, Chris Coolidge	Peter Petrelli (lost)
	The ability to see sound waves as light and project concussive blasts
	Fire breathing	Chris Bowman, Gail Bowman, Jennie Bowman
	The ability to breathe out fire
	Fire casting	El Diablo, Blazing homeless man, "The Firestarter"
	The ability to engulf oneself in flames
	Flight	Nathan Petrelli (synthetic), West Rosen, Angie, Aiden, April Clifton, Donna, Rob Brewer, Floating boy, "Chinese Guy", Fiona	Peter Petrelli (lost), Future Sylar1, Sylar
	The ability to propel oneself through the air
	Forcefields	Abigail
	The ability to create and manipulate forcefields
	Freezing	James Walker, Tracy Strauss (synthetic), Mick the Ice Guy	Sylar (lost), Peter Petrelli (lost)
	The ability to reduce temperatures and freeze objects by force of will
	Future terrorist's ability	Future terrorist
	The ability to shoot a concentrated flow of green energy or liquid from the hand
	Gold mimicry	"Little Miss Goldenrod"
	The ability to turn one's body into gold
	Granulation	Gordon Hovey
	The ability to turn things into sand
	Gravitational manipulation	Stephen Canfield
	The ability to create gravitational vacuums
	Green energy blast	Ricky
	The ability to discharge a green-colored emission
	Hachiro's ability	Hachiro Otomo
	The ability to digitize matter and interact with virtual environments
	Healing	Daniel Linderman, Ishi Nakamura, Taylor's father
	The ability to heal the wounds of others
	Healing touch	Jeremy Greer	Peter Petrelli (lost)
	The ability to control the flow of life
	Heat generation	Mrs. Comey, British girl
	The ability to heat things
	Illusion	Candice Willmer, Crazy Tom, Callum	Future Sylar1, Future Peter2
	The ability to alter the perceptions of others
	Image projection	Deirdre
	The ability to project images from one's eyes
	Impenetrable skin	Baron Samedi
	The ability of one's skin to not be penetrated by anything
	Imprinting	Joe Macon	Sylar
	The ability to mentally imprint marks onto surfaces
	Induced radioactivity	Ted Sprague	Peter Petrelli (lost), Sylar (lost), Future Gabriel2
	The ability to manipulate the movement of subatomic particles, thus generating and emitting toxic radiation
	Intuitive aptitude	Sylar, Samson Gray	Peter Petrelli (lost)
	The ability to analyze complex systems and intuitively understand how they work without special education or training
	Invisibility	Claude Rains, Becky Taylor, "Hipster Dude", Farah Nazan	Peter Petrelli
	The ability to not be seen
	Laser emission	Michael
	The ability to generate a beam of coherent light
	Levitation	Abu Aswan, Khufu and his kin
	The ability to levitate and move extremely heavy objects
	Lie detection	Sue Landers	Sylar
	The ability to detect when others lie
	Luke's ability	Luke Collins
	The ability to emit heat, light, and electromagnetism
	Luminescence	Howard Grigsby, Dee H
	The ability to emit light from one's body
	Lung adaptation	Bianca Karina
	The ability to adapt one's lungs to any environment
	Magnetism	The German, Magnetism terrorist, Bo LoFontaine
	The ability to manipulate ferrous objects and materials
	Mass manipulation	Sylvia, Eric Lee Harrison
	The ability to manipulate mass, growing or shrinking at will
	Mediumship	Ida May Walker	Linda Tavara
	The ability to view the spirits of the deceased
	Melting	Zane Taylor	Sylar (lost)
	The ability to melt solid materials
	Memory manipulation	Damian
	The ability to make an individual re-experience forgotten or past memories and to erase memories
	Memory storage	Caspar Abraham
	The ability to transfer a person's memory into inanimate objects
	Mental manipulation	René	Arthur Petrelli, Peter Petrelli (lost)
	The ability to manipulate others' minds, causing them to lose memories or be prevented from using mental powers
	Metal mimicry	Danny Pine, Large guy
	The ability to transmute one's own body into metal
	Microwave emission	Luke Campbell, Mr. Shelby
	The ability to emit rays of microwaves from one's hands
	Miko's ability	Miko Otomo
	The ability to physically enter the video game Evernow
	Mist mimicry	Father Mauricio
	The ability to mimic mist and control one's body while in a smoky state
	Nerve gas emission	Manhattan target
	The ability to emit nerve gas when sweating
	Nerve manipulation	"The Watcher"
	The ability to manipulate the nerves of others
	Neurocognitive deficit	Anna Korolenko
	The ability to shut down the upper brain functions of surrounding individuals
	Oil secretion	Howie Kaplan
	The ability to secrete oil from one's hands
	Omnilingualism	Traveler
	The ability to automatically understand all verbal and non-verbal communication
	Persuasion	Eden McCain, Kelly, Damen Peak
	The ability to force others to obey one's spoken commands
	Phasing	D.L. Hawkins, Samir Mellouk, Skinny guy, Motorcyclist, Jose Gutierrez, Marylou Winawer	Future Sylar1, Peter Petrelli (lost)
	The ability to pass through solid objects at will
	Phoenix mimicry	Unknown	Draph
	The ability to possess traits remenicent of a phoenix, including reincarnation, flight, and pyrokinesis
	Plant growth	Au Co, Ian Michaels
	The ability to accelerate plant growth
	Plant manipulation	Brendan Lewis, Sue Grandry, Theodore van den Burg
	The ability to mimic and create plants and other vegetation
	Plasmakinesis	Trevor Mason (synthetic)
	The ability to create and manipulate plasma
	Poison emission	Maya Herrera (lost)	Arthur Petrelli
	The ability to harm or kill people in the immediate area by emitting a deadly poison
	Possession	Harold Esposito	Future Peter2
	The ability to insert a person into someone else's body
	Precognition	Isaac Mendez, Usutu	Peter Petrelli (lost), Sylar (lost), Future Gabriel2, Arthur Petrelli
	The ability to accurately predict future events through paintings
	Precognitive dreaming	Angela Petrelli	Peter Petrelli (lost)
	The ability to see the future through dreams
	Primal rage	Ricardo Silva
	The ability to induce an uncontrollable rage in others
	Probability computation	Kaito Nakamura
	The ability to see the variables of any situation and predict the outcome
	Puppet master	Eric Doyle
	The ability to control the motor functions of people and objects
	Pyrokinesis	Meredith Gordon, Maarten, Flint Gordon, Jr., Iris, Reese, Coach Lewis	Future Peter1, Peter Petrelli (lost)
	The ability to create and control fire using the power of the mind
	Rapid cell regeneration	Claire Bennet (lost), Adam Monroe (lost), Dan	Peter Petrelli (lost), Future Sylar1, Sylar, Arthur Petrelli, Tommy Clark (lost)
	The ability to heal wounds quickly without any scarring
	Sedation	Unknown victim	Samson Gray
	The ability to lull victims into a sedated state
	Seismic burst	Mr. Shaw, Mr. Taylor, Repairman
	The ability to repel objects away from one's self
	Shape shifting	James Martin, Josh Davis, Shape shifting evo, Phil, Henry, Phil Haas	Sylar, Peter Petrelli (lost)
	The ability to shift one's physical characteristics
	Shattering	Trevor Zeitlan, Pearl	Sylar (lost)
	The ability to shatter objects without physical contact
	Sound absorption	Agent
	The ability to absorb and nullify sound waves
	Sound manipulation	Echo DeMille, Jesse Murphy	Sylar
	The ability to manipulate sound waves using one's voice
	Space-time manipulation	Hiro Nakamura (restored,lost), Arnold, Cassandra Hays, Dahlia Hays (synthetic)	Peter Petrelli (lost), Arthur Petrelli, Tommy Clark
	The ability to alter the space-time continuum, including slowing down, speeding up, reversing, stopping, moving backwards and forwards through time, and moving instantaneously through space
	Spider mimicry	Caleb
	The ability to turn one's body into a spider-like creature
	Spontaneous combustion	Amanda
	The ability to cause things to catch fire
	Super speed	Agent, Daphne Millbrook, Edgar, Speedster trainee, "Angry Old Man"	Future Peter1, Peter Petrelli (lost)
	The ability to move at a higher rate than normal
	Supercharging	Ando Masahashi (synthetic)
	The ability to emit a red-colored beam of energy which can be used for a multitude of effects
	Technopathy	Micah Sanders
	The ability to control and manipulate technology with the mind
	Telekinesis	Brian Davis, Misha, Unknown victim, Aviv, Jack, Game operator, Richard, Dahlia Hays, Francis Culp, Morgan Perdue, Cassandra Hays (synthetic), Alex Woodward	Sylar, Peter Petrelli (lost), Arthur Petrelli, Samson Gray, Draph
	The ability to move objects with the mind
	Telepathy	Matt Parkman, Maury Parkman, Charles Deveaux	Peter Petrelli (lost), Arthur Petrelli, Draph
	The ability to mentally control functions of the brain
	Teleportation	Manuel Garcia, Rachel Mills, Teleportation trainee
	The ability to instantly move between two locations
	Telescopic vision	Donna Dunlap, Alexander French
	The ability to see clearly in darkness and magnify vision to various levels
	Temporal rewind	John Mulligan
	The ability to rewind time
	Terrakinesis	Sparrow Redhouse, Samuel Sullivan	Peter Petrelli (lost)
	The ability to control geologic materials such as dirt and rocks
	Umbrakinesis	Phoebe Frady
	The ability to manipulate light and shadows
	Wall crawling	Harmon
	The ability to crawl up walls effortlessly
	Water mimicry	"Liquid man", Elisa, Donald Essex
	The ability to mimic water
	Weather control	Alice Shaw
	The ability to control the weather

Unseen Abilities

These abilities have been described in writing, but have never been visually demonstrated, such as abilities demonstrated in iStory or book content.

Power4	Person	Source
Belief induction	Alethea Thorn	Faction Zero
Carbon isolation and formation	Cole	The Civilian
Dimension hopping	Kelli Wheaton	Faction Zero
Dimensional storage	Store	The Civilian
Enhanced breath	Jamart Ærts‎	Save the Cheerleader, Destroy the World
Enhanced teleporting	James Kelly	Purpose
Extraskeletal manipulation	Shard	Slow Burn
Fireworks creation	Detlev	Save the Cheerleader, Destroy the World
Health optimizing	Marc	The Civilian
Inflammation	Toby	The Civilian
Light absorption	Abe	The Agent
Light manipulation	Antoine Mercier	Save the Cheerleader, Destroy the World
Non-biological duplication	Glade	Slow Burn
Rock formation	Hugo Gallegos	Dirty Deeds
Shifting	Valerie, Victor	The Agent
Water generation	Barbara	The Agent

List of Non-Demonstrated Abilities

These abilities have been attributed to various characters, but the ability has never been demonstrated by the character.

Potential Power3	Person	Location	Source
Acid secretion	Unknown	São Paulo, Brazil	Assignment tracker map
Age manipulation	David Reese	Unknown	The Needs of the Many
Astral vision	Katie Angro	Unknown	The Needs of the Many
Chlorokinesis and plant mimicry	Theodore van den Burg	The Netherlands	Heroes: Survival
Claircognizance	Draph	South Dakota	Slow Burn
Corrosion	Unknown convict	Lisbon, Portugal	Assignment tracker map
Deoxygenation	Middle school boy	Santa Cruz, CA	Five Years Gone
Dynamic camouflage	A woman	Unknown	Genesis Files
Earthquake causing	A man	Sydney, Australia	I Am Become Death
Electric mimicry	Unknown	Nigeria	Assignment tracker map
Electronic data manipulation	Unknown	Pakistan and Afghanistan border	Assignment tracker map
Empathic manipulation	Morgan Harvey	New York, NY	Heroes: Survival
Enhanced thought processing	Katherine Murry	Los Angeles, CA	Heroes: Survival
Enhanced memory	Trevor Tanaka	Los Angeles, CA	Heroes: Survival
Evolved human detection	Lukas Bahn	Washington, DC	Assignment tracker map
Gas mimicry	Zan Hahn	Beijing, China	Assignment tracker map
Hair manipulation	Paul Harding	Washington, DC	Assignment tracker map
Induced explosion	Darryl Blake	San Diego, CA	Assignment tracker map
Induced sleep and soporifia	Therese Bryne	Boston, MA	Heroes: Survival
Intuitive empathy and empathy communication	Seal	Utah	The Civilian
Memory theft	Miles Lecomte	San Francisco, CA	Heroes: Survival
Metal duplication	Unknown	Afghanistan	Assignment tracker map
Metallic sweat	Carmen Gonzalez	Leon, Mexico	Assignment tracker map
Nervous system manipulation	Unknown	Toronto, Canada	Assignment tracker map
Object displacement	Sebastian Shell	Beijing, China	Assignment tracker map
Photographic memory and reflexes	Pacy McNeil	New York, NY	Heroes: Survival
Power manipulation	Alisa Kousoulis	Unknown	The Needs of the Many
Reality distortion	"The Prankster"	Waterbury, CT	Assignment tracker map
Shadow mimicry	Unknown male 1	Reno, NV	Assignment tracker map
Silicon manipulation	Mykah	California	Heroes: Survival
Size alteration	Robert Ferguson	Alexandria, LA	Assignment tracker map
Snake mimicry	"Snake man"	Everglades National Park	Assignment tracker map
Summoning	Debra Harding	Boise, ID	Assignment tracker map
Superspeed	Alexander French	St. Louis, MO	The Needs of the Many
Temperature manipulation	Ian Verro	Denver, Colorado	Assignment tracker map
Transportation	Journal male 2 Journal female 1	Chilpancingo, Mexico Palu, Indonesia	Chandra's journal
Weather control	Albert Rossling "The Croatian"	San Diego, CA Croatia	Assignment tracker map Faces, Part 1"

Shown in Deleted Scenes

Deleted Scene Power	Person	Location	Source
Dynamic camouflage	"Chameleon girl"	Unknown	Season Two DVD deleted scene
Impenetrable skin	Robert Keep	Unknown	Season Two DVD deleted scene
Induced radioactivity	Amid Halebi ("The Engineer")	Los Angeles, CA	Unaired pilot
Probability computation	Kaito Nakamura	Tokyo, Japan	Season Two DVD deleted scene, Comic-Con video

Notes

1. These abilities were manifested in the "explosion future."

2. These abilities were manifested in the "exposed future."

3. These abilities have been referenced in either an episode, graphic novel, or Heroes Evolutions, but have not been detailed enough to confirm their exact nature and identification. Therefore they are unconfirmed and listed here for documentation.

4. These abilities have been confirmed by text demonstration, such as in the iStory, or by being listed in a trusted show source, such as the Assignment Tracker. However, none of these have been visually illustrated with a drawn image or photograph. Therefore, they are listed as unseen for documentation.

See Also

• For other uses of ability, see ability (disambig).
• For information on the inheritance of abilities, see ability heredity.
• For Sylar's ability to steal other evolved humans' abilities, see ability theft.
• For a comparison of Isaac's paintings with their realizations, see prophecy.

Fan Theories

Please refer to Theory:List of abilities for fan-created theories and other speculation.

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