Alchemy

Alchemy
Bob shows Mohinder his "own private Fort Knox".
Originally held by:	Bob Bishop
Absorbed by:	Sylar
Ability to:	Change the molecular composition of any material to gold

Alchemy is the ability to transform the chemical composition of materials to gold.

Characters

• Bob Bishop is the only character known to have this ability.
• Sylar absorbed this ability after killing Bob.

Limits

Bob has the ability to change the composition of objects. According to a blurb about him on the assignment tracker map, Bob can turn objects only into gold. The amount of mass he can affect at one time is unknown, though he has turned an adult male entirely into gold (The Golden Goose).

It is not yet known if there are materials Bob cannot transform.

Since Bob's power does not automatically affect anything he touches, it must require some concentration to use.

Bob can apparently generate substantial quantities of gold over time, because he implies that his power is a significant source of the Company's funding (Four Months Later...).

Examples

• 
  Bob takes hold of an ordinary teaspoon...
• 
  ...and transmutes it into gold.
  (Four Months Later...)
• 
  Bob transforms Hampton Connolly's arm...
• 
  ...then his face...
• 
  ...then his entire body....
• 
  ...and then, Bob melts him.
  (The Golden Goose)
• 
  Bob shows Donna Dunlap his golden touch.
  (Donna's Big Date, Part 2)
• 
  Sylar turns a gun to gold.
  (The Butterfly Effect)

Memorable Quotes

"Look, the type of research you're talking about is extremely expensive."

"Trust me. That won't be a problem. Let's just say we have our own private Fort Knox."

- Mohinder, Bob (Four Months Later...)

Notes

• The name "alchemy" comes from Joe Pokaski and Aron Coleite, who used the term to decribe Bob's power in a CBR Q&A interview.
• Joe Pokaski and Aron Coleite originally held that Bob could transmute materials into substances other than gold. However, this thinking appears to have been changed. The assignment tracker map later claimed he could only convert things into gold, and Bob's ability has never been depicted as anything other than changing materials into gold. Also, Sylar turned a gun into gold while telling Elle that this was what her father could do.
• The password that Elle enters into Bob's computer in Powerless is "MIDAS". In Greek mythology, Midas was a king whose greed led the god Dionysus to curse him with the "ability" to turn everything he touched to gold -- including his own daughter.
• Peter has been in close proximity to Bob, but has not displayed this ability.

See Also

• Alchemy -- Wikipedia

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