User:Cockney Heroes/Abilities/Alchemy

Alchemy
Sylar becomes the man with the golden gun.
Originally held by:	Bob Bishop (deceased), Richard Gold
Absorbed by:	Sylar, Gabriel Bishop
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 had this ability.
• Sylar has stolen this ability from Bob.
• Gabriel Bishop has absorbed this ability.
• Richard Gold has this ability.

Limits

Bob Bishop

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 named Hampton Connolly entirely into gold (The Golden Goose). After transmutation, Hampton Connolly was carried out by four men on a stretcher, suggesting his weight may not have been significantly increased. However, it is not known whether only a shell of Hampton's form was left after transformation or whether the gold Hampton was transformed to weighed less than standard gold.

It is not yet known if there are materials Bob cannot transform. So far he has only used it to transform solids, it is unknown if it is possible to affect liquids or gases with this ability.

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...).

Sylar

Utilizing control nearly equal to Bob's, Sylar was able to turn a gun to pure gold in a matter of seconds, only minutes after acquiring this ability.

Gabriel Bishop

Gabriel has shown complete control over his ability, he was able to turn a pencil he was holding into gold. (Hidden in the Darkness) Gabriel has insinuated that he can turn a human into gold, like Bob could. (Nemesis)

Richard Gold

His control remains unknown though he has become a big gold dealer in London and it has been said that whatever he touches turns to gold. (How to Stop an Exploding Van)

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...)

"Look what daddy could do."

- Sylar (to Elle) (The Butterfly Effect)

Notes

• The name "alchemy" comes from Joe Pokaski and Aron Coleite, who used the term to describe 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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