Examples of empathic mimicry

Empathic mimicry is the ability to duplicate the powers of other evolved humans. A full list of examples of the power in action follows.

Season One Examples

• Peter explains to Nathan what happened when he got out of bed that morning. He tells him that his foot hovered for a split second before he hit the ground. (Genesis)
• Peter duplicates his brother Nathan's ability to fly after Nathan drops Peter. (Genesis)
• On a rooftop, Peter doesn't realize that he is walking on air while in Nathan's presence. (Don't Look Back)
• Peter duplicates Isaac's ability to paint the future. (Don't Look Back, Hiros)
• Peter duplicates Claire's ability to heal the fatal injuries he received in a long fall. (Homecoming)
• Peter duplicates Matt's telepathic ability, causing a disturbing feedback loop between them. (Fallout)
• Peter has a dream in which he mimics the ability to fly. (Super-Heroics)
• Peter duplicates Claude's invisibility; Peter and Claude can't be seen by anyone but each other. (Godsend, The Fix, Distractions, Unexpected)
• When Peter is impaled on top of a taxi, he regenerates, though nobody with that power is nearby. (Distractions)
• By remembering the other evolved humans he has encountered, Peter displays brief flashes of invisibility, telepathy, and precognition in rapid succession. The experience begins to cause him to overload. (Distractions)
• Peter blocks a swing from Claude using telekinesis. (Unexpected)
• Peter uses space-time manipulation and telekinesis to stop Mr. Bennet's taser in mid-air. (Unexpected)
• Peter flies away, carrying Claude with him. (Unexpected)
• An enraged Peter tosses Isaac around his studio using telekinesis. (Unexpected)
• Peter turns invisible when Isaac goes for his gun. (Unexpected)
• Peter turns invisible and runs out Isaac's apartment. Later at Nathan's office, he appears and then disappears. (Parasite)
• Battling Sylar, Peter mimics regeneration, telekinesis, and invisibility. He later mimics regeneration again to recover from a head injury. (.07%)
• Future Peter mimics invisibility and telekinesis at a strip club in a possible future. (Five Years Gone)
• Future Peter mimics space-time manipulation to save Future Hiro and Ando by stopping time and teleporting to Las Vegas. (Five Years Gone)
• Future Peter mimics enhanced strength by throwing security guards while trying to save Hiro. (Five Years Gone)
• Future Peter, battling Future Sylar, mimics pyrokinesis. (Five Years Gone)
• Future Peter is able to stop time with Future Hiro. (Walls, Part 1)
• Peter draws several precognitive images in a book. (The Hard Part)
• Upon meeting Ted, Peter's hands immediately begin to glow. (The Hard Part, Landslide)
• Future Peter emits electric bolts after coming into contact with an evolved agent. (Walls, Part 2)
• Peter, after displaying flames from his hands, comments to an agent with enhanced speed that he can catch her since he has met her. (Walls, Part 2)
• Peter mimics telepathy to hear Sylar's thoughts. (Landslide)
• Peter mimics invisibility to escape the FBI. (Landslide)
• Peter mimics telepathy and hears Claire thinking he lied to her. Moments later, he hears Nathan thinking everyone is going to die from the inevitable explosion. (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
• Peter uses invisibility to escape Nathan and reappears in an empty street. (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
• Peter taps into Ted's power in an empty street and blacks out. (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
• After watching Niki's feat of enhanced strength in clobbering Sylar with a traffic-meter, Peter confidently takes over for Niki, barehandedly pummeling his face into a bloody mess, showing a display of aggression uncharacteristic of Peter until that moment. (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
• At Kirby Plaza, Peter taps into Ted's power again but is unable to control it. Nathan arrives in time to fly a glowing Peter up into the sky and Peter explodes in a bright light. (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
• Peter is about to explode. (The Death of Hana Gitelman, Part 2)

Season Two Examples

• In a cargo container in Cork, Ireland, Peter mimics an ability to fend off some thugs. (Four Months Later)
• Peter mimics rapid cell regeneration after receiving a beating from Tuko (Caitlin doesn't find any cuts on his face, but wipes off a large amount of blood). Peter mimics phasing to escape his bonds. He then mimics lightning, telekinesis and enhanced strength to fend off Caitlin's attackers. (Lizards)
• Peter mimics telepathy and hears Will's thoughts. Later, Peter mimics telekinesis to move an armored truck. In the Wandering Rocks, Peter mimics telekinesis to pin Will against the wall, and mimics rapid cell regeneration to force out two bullets fired into him. (Kindred)
• Peter mimics lightning on a beach after saying Caitlin's name. He later accesses telepathy, and hears Caitlin's thoughts. (Petrified Lightning)
• Peter mimics precognition after seeing a blank canvas and paints a picture. (Fight or Flight)
• Clutching Caitlin, Peter wishes to know about himself and his future. They then time travel to a deserted Times Square in 2008. (The Line)
• Peter reads his mother's mind in 2008, which makes him remember her. (Out of Time)
• Peter inadvertently teleports back to Montreal in 2007. (Out of Time)
• Peter fires off a lightning bolt at a supposed intruder. (Out of Time)
• Peter explodes over Kirby Plaza. (Four Months Ago...)
• Peter flies down to save his brother from falling to his death. (Four Months Ago...)
• Peter escapes from a curious cop by turning invisible. (Four Months Ago...)
• Peter mimics Elle's ability to generate lightning during a series of flirtatious encounters with her. (Four Months Ago...)
• Peter phases himself and Adam Monroe out of Primatech Research. (Four Months Ago...)
• Peter survives a shotgun blast by Victoria Pratt, and later pulls the location of Strain 138 out of her head. (Truth & Consequences)
• Peter is unaffected by Hiro's time stop, and uses lightning to protect Adam. (Truth & Consequences)
• Peter shocks Hiro's sword. (Powerless)
• Peter flings guards using telekinesis, then disables the alarms with a blast of lightning. (Powerless)
• Peter rips the vault door open with telekinesis. (Powerless)
• Peter pins Hiro to the wall and chokes him. (Powerless)
• After Matt projects thoughts into Peter's mind, Peter does the same to Matt, then telekinetically pushes him backwards. (Powerless)
• Peter catches the tube containing the virus, then destroys it. (Powerless)

Season One Gallery

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  Peter mimics flight.
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  Nathan attempts to save Peter, but drops him. Peter then flies in order to save himself.
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  Peter draws a prophetic sketch of himself flying near Nathan.
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  Peter levitates in Nathan's presence.
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  Peter may have mimicked Future Hiro's power to freeze time.
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  Peter mimics precognition.
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  Peter prophetically completes Isaac's unfinished painting.
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  Peter may be mimicking telekinesis.
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  After a normally devastating fall...
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  ...Peter mimics Claire's healing power.
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  In a sickbed vision, Peter flies.
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  Peter mimics Claude's invisibility.
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  As Claude walks away, Peter reappears.
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  After Claude pushes him from Charles Deveaux's rooftop, Peter manages to recall Claire's regeneration.
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  Peter accesses several powers in rapid succession: Claude's invisibility...
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  ...Matt's telepathy...
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  ...and Isaac's precognition.
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  Peter mimics telekinesis.
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  Peter slows down then freezes time.
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  Peter mimics flight to escape...
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  ...and carries Claude to safety.
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  When fighting Isaac, Peter uses telekinesis...
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  ...and invisibility.
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  Peter uses a smörgåsbord of powers to avoid Sylar's rampage, including...
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  ...telekinesis...
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  ...invisibility...
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  ...and regeneration.
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  Peter uses precognition to work on some prophetic art.
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  Immediately after being in Ted's vicinity, Peter's hands begin to glow...
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  ...but he is able to reign in his new power.
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  Peter and Hiro stop time together to disable some guards.
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  Peter radioactively breaks down a prison door.
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  Peter uses a brand new power to electrocute an agent.
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  Peter creates fire to ward off a fast agent...
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  ...and then chases after her.
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  In the future, Peter pulls a glass towards him...
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  ...then appears to Niki.
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  Watch as Peter demonstrates his mastery of simulataneous power usage.
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  Appearing to save Future Hiro and Ando...
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  ...he telekinetically throws a guard...
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  ...stops time...
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  ...then teleports to a safer place.
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  To go against ice, Peter recalls fire.
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  Sylar's thoughts on power are loud and clear to Peter.
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  Peter and Claire disappear from the FBI.
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  Peter hears Claire's thoughts.
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  Peter hears Nathan's thoughts.
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  Peter uses invisibility to escape Nathan...
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  ...and becomes visible again as he arrives at a deserted street.
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  Peter taps into Ted's power and worries that he'll lose control...
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  ...and blacks out in the street.
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  Peter absorbs Niki's power and clobbers Sylar.
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  Peter is unable to control Ted's power, but...
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  ...Nathan comes to save the day by flying a glowing Peter...
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  ...before he explodes...
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  ...in a bright light in the sky.

Season Two Gallery

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  Peter uses an ability to fend off some Irish thugs.
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  Peter finds that he has no cuts.
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  Peter fends off an intruder.
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  Peter phases through some ropes binding him...
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  ...until he's free from them.
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  Peter hears Will's thoughts.
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  During a heist, Peter moves an armored truck.
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  Peter pushes and chokes Will against a wall...
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  ...while expelling two bullets from his body.
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  Peter recalls an ability using a key word.
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  Peter hears what Caitlin is thinking.
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  Peter sees an image on a blank canvas...
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  ...enters a precognitive trance...
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  ...and paints a scene in Montreal.
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  Peter inadvertently sends himself and Caitlin to New York in the future.
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  Peter mimics telepathy...
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  ...and recovers his lost memories of his mother.
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  Peter inadvertently returns to the past, leaving Caitlin in the future.
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  Peter unleashes a bolt of lightning at Adam Monroe.
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  Peter uses regeneration...
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  ...to heal his memories of Nathan back.
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  Peter causes radiation burns on Nathan...
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  ...as he glows brighter...
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  ...and explodes in the sky.
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  After Peter explodes, he mimics flight to catch Nathan.
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  Peter uses invisibility to remain unseen.
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  Peter manages to mimic phasing...
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  ...and he walks through a wall...
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  ...and escapes the Company's prison with Adam.
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  Peter survives a shotgun blast by Victoria Pratt.
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  Peter telepathically discovers the location of Strain 138.
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  Peter is immune to Hiro's time freeze...
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  ...and unleashes a ball of lightning to protect Adam.
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  Peter later uses lightning to shock Hiro.
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  Peter knocks a guard out.
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  Peter shocks a fuse box...
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  ...and stops the alarms.
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  Peter uses telekinesis to break into the vault.
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  Peter pins Hiro to the wall.
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  Peter projects thoughts at Matt...
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  ...then sends Matt flying backwards.
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  Peter catches the falling vial of the virus...
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  ...then destroys it.