Fan Creation:Ability homology

Ability homology
Luke, Elle, Meredith and Ted all can generate heat, but each uses a different ability to do so.

In biology, structures that are anatomically different yet have similar functions are said to be homologous. A similar phenomenon can be seen in the effects of some evolved human abilities.

The following table lists effects that have been shared by different abilities.

Effect	Ability	Notes
Acquire another's ability	Ability replication	Allows the user to temporarily copy other evolved humans abilities by touching them.
	Aura absorption	Users acquire abilities by killing the target and taking the victim's aura.
	Empathic mimicry	User acquires abilities by being near other evolved humans.
	Intuitive aptitude	Allows the user to acquire an ability by studying the brain of another.
	Power absorption	Arthur Petrelli can steal the abilities of other evolved humans by touching them.
Affect human memory	Enhanced memory	Users can consume large amounts of information.
	Memory manipulation	Damian can return lost memories to others.
	Mental manipulation	The Haitian can erase memories.
	Telepathy	Matt Parkman can implant thoughts to make people forget. (Almost Famous)
Alter the perceptions of others	Appearance alteration	Connie could make one person look like another person by shaping their face.
	Cloaking	Teddy can make objects disappear and reappear.
	Dream manipulation	While someone is in the dream state, Sanjog can alter a person's dream and conjure images of past events in them.
	Illusion	Users can make others perceive whatever the user wants them to.
	Inflammation	Toby can make others feel burning pains.
	Invisibility	Users can hide themselves from others' view.
	Nerve manipulation	"The Watcher" can make himself and others unseen and cause others to feel pain.
	Neurocognitive deficit	Anna Korolenko can affect and disorient sensory perception, motor commands, language skills, and even conscious thought.
	Telepathy	Maury can make people see things that aren't there and can trap people in vivid nightmares.
Alternate one's appearance	Age shifting	The Russian can change his appearance according to the age he shifts into.
	Gold mimicry	"Little Miss Goldenrod" can turn her body into gold.
	Illusion	Users can create an illusion of of themselves in physical appearance of another person.
	Invisibility	Users can make themselves unseen to others.
	Metal mimicry	Danny Pine could turn his body into metal.
	Nerve manipulation	"The Watcher" can make himself and others unseen.
	Shape shifting	Users can copy other people physical appearance once a physical connection has happened.
	Telepathy	Matt fooled Knox by appearing dead with Daphne through an illusion.
	Water mimicry	Users can change their physical appearance into water.
Breathe in deadly conditions	Lung adaptation	Bianca could stay under water for hours without breathing and could breathe through toxic gases.
	Rapid cellular regeneration	Adam survived imprisonment and oxygen deprivation in a coffin underground.
	Underwater breathing	Allows the user to breathe underwater, a deadly thing for normal humans to try.
Climb walls with ease	Mohinder's ability	The goo that he secreted allowed him to climb walls.
	Wall crawling	Allows users to easily scale vertical surfaces.
Detect lies	Empathy	Lydia can tell if a person is lying.
	Enhanced strength	Knox can feel people's fear and discover if they're lying.
	Lie detection	Users can detect spoken lies outright.
	Telepathy	Users can read the minds of people to detect if they're lying.
Emit toxic substances	Acid secretion	Cushing secretes deadly acid that killed Agent Wu.
	Chlorine gas exudation	Tina Ramierez exhales gaseous chlorine, which was toxic enough to kill several agents and knock out Rachel St. John.
	Induced radioactivity	Users of this ability generate toxic radiation, enough to kill people, as it did to Karen Sprague.
	Nerve gas emission	According to Penny Logan, a Manhattan man sweats nerve gas when he is nervous. This gas is presumably toxic.
	Poison emission	Maya cries black, poisonous tears, which have killed several.
Enhance one's own strength	Enhanced strength	Users can exert a large amount of force.
	Mass manipulation	By increasing her size and mass, "Sylvia" grew strong enough to lift a car with one hand. (From the Files of Primatech, Part 6)
	Mohinder's ability	Mohinder crushes a gun with one hand. (The Second Coming)
	Telekinesis	Sylar punches through a cab window with his fist (Seven Minutes to Midnight), and is able to wield a parking meter as a weapon (How to Stop an Exploding Man).
Force another to do one's will	Belief induction	User can make others believe they have to do something.
	Persuasion	With a spoken command, users of this ability can influence the actions of others.
	Puppet master	Eric Doyle can force his victim's body to do what he wishes, in spite of the conscious objections of the victim.
	Telepathy	Matt discovered that he can implant a thought into someone else's mind, altering their actions. (Cautionary Tales)
	Telekinesis	Sylar forced Audrey to point her gun at her own head using his power. (One Giant Leap)
Generate heat or flame	Electric manipulation	Elle has used the electrical arcs generated to weld a lock inoperable, which requires heat. She has also charred flesh, set a cup on fire, lit candles, and ignited Peter's shirt.
	Fire breathing	Users can breathe out fire.
	Heating	Mrs. Comey can heat objects by touching them. (Hysterical Blindness)
	Induced radioactivity	Heat is a form of radiation, and has been released by the use of this ability. Radiation generated by this ability has ignited objects.
	Laser emission	Lasers can produce heat.
	Microwave rays	Luke Campbell can use his ability to boil water, melt plastic, and burn objects (Trust and Blood)
	Pyrokinesis	This is the ability to create flames.
	Spontaneous combustion	An ability where a condensation of heat occurs, heating objects until they combust.
Heal another's injuries	Healing	Linderman could heal the injuries of others by touching them.
	Healing touch	By controlling their life force, Jeremy could accelerate the healing processes of those he touched.
	Health optimizing	Marc can sense and optimize health of others.
	Rapid cellular regeneration	When injured people receive the blood of an individual with this ability, their injuries are healed.
Impersonate another individual	Appearance alteration	Connie Logan alters the appearance of her daughter Penny, so that she could impersonate various people.
	Body insertion	Future Peter used this ability to hide his present self in Jesse Murphy's body.
	Illusion	Candice used her ability to impersonate several people.
	Shape shifting	Sylar has used this ability to change his physical appearance to those of various different individuals.
	Telepathy	Matt can use his ability to manipulate people's perception of the world.
Lift one's self from the ground	Flight	Users lift off of the ground and go where they please.
	Electric manipulation	An agent with this ability who works for Matt in a possible future can levitate above the ground. (Walls)
	Telekinesis	Sylar has used the ability to go vertically (One Giant Leap, Road Kill) and to make no footsteps (Unexpected).
Manipulate sound	Enhanced synesthesia	Users can see sounds as lights and create concussive blasts.
	Sound absorption	Users can use their own bodies to absorb sound waves, nullifying their effects.
	Sound manipulation	Users can manipulate sounds with their voice and convert sound energy into other types of energy.
Manipulate technology	Activation and deactivation	Matt Parkman Jr. can activate devices near him.
	Electronic communication	Hana Gitelman could generate electronic signals with her mind to communicate with computer systems and hack them.
	Technopathy	Micah can touch pieces of technology and make them do what he wishes.
Manipulate vegetation	Plant growth	Au Co could make plants grow at a rate much faster than normal.
	Plant manipulation	Brendan Lewis could make vegetation grow around him.
Move objects remotely	Forcefields	Abigail can move objects by encasing them in forcefields.
	Gravitational manipulation	The vortices created by Stephen Canfield pull objects into themselves.
	Levitation	Abu Aswan's ancestor lifted a pyramid block from the ground without touching it.
	Magnetism	The German could move metal objects without touching them.
	Puppet master	The bodies of Eric Doyle's victims and inanimate objects move the way he wishes without Eric having to touch them.
	Seismic burst	Users can create shockwaves and repel objects away.
	Sound manipulation	Users can manipulate sound to create shockwaves, which would repel objects away.
	Telekinesis	Users can move multiple objects of any composition without touching them.
	Terrakinesis	Users can move earth with their mind.
Move quickly to another location	Accelerated probability	Users can move very quickly to another location.
	Flight	Users can propel themselves through the air.
	Space-time manipulation	User can either teleport or stop time and physically move to another location.
	Super speed	Allows user to cover vast distances in a short amount of time.
	Teleportation	Users can disappear from a location and reappear in another instantaneously.
Prevent ability use	Empathic manipulation	Joseph Sullivan could make others lose focus over their abilities by manipulating their emotions.
	Mental manipulation	Prevents evolved humans from using abilities while in the user's presence.
	Neurocognitive deficit	Anna Korolenko can shut down the upper brain functions of those around her, thus rendering them unable to use their abilities.
Puppet master	User can take remote control of an individuals actions, and prevent them from taking an action involving an ability.
Release electrical arcs	Accelerated probability	Edward generated a charge and released it into a woman. (Destiny, Part 4)
	Electrical absorption	After absorbing electricity, a patient in a hospital can release electrical arcs.
	Electric manipulation	Users of this ability can release electrical arcs.
	Weather control	Alice could control lightning strikes.
Resistance to physical injury	Forcefields	Abigail can create forcefields around any part of her body to protect herself from harm.
	Freezing	Any injury sustained by Tracy simply melts the area and reforms into place.
	Impenetrable skin	Baron Samedi supposedly cannot be harmed by any physical means.
	Metal mimicry	Danny Pine's arm became bulletproof when he transformed it into metal. (Partners)
	Rapid cell regeneration	Users with this ability heal their injuries almost instantaneously.
	Telekinesis	Sylar resisted the bullets that Matt Parkman fired at him and was able to rise to his feet unharmed. (One Giant Leap)
See glimpses of the future	Accelerated probability	Users of this ability can see all possible outcomes of any given situation. One of the outcomes they see is guaranteed to happen.
	Precognition	Users see glimpses of the future in trances generated by this ability.
	Precognitive dreaming	Dreams generated by the use of this ability conjure figurative representations of future events.
	Space-time manipulation	Users can physically go to the future and see the events that will happen.
	Telepathy	Matt Parkman can access the same plane of consciousness precogs do and paint the future.
	Temporal rewind	Users can live through events then rewind time to alter them.
See glimpses of the past	Clairsentience	Users see glimpses of the past events pertaining to an object when touching said object.
	Empathy	Lydia can feel what happened to people in the past.
	Precognition	Isaac Mendez drew the past when people travelled back into it.
	Precognitive dreaming	Peter Petrelli saw his mother and Charles Deveaux discuss an explosion to come in the past.
	Space-time manipulation	Users can physically go to the past and see the events that happened.
Travel through time	Space-time manipulation	Hiro can travel through time by bending the space-time continuum.
	Supercharged super speed	When Daphne's super speed is amplified, she becomes capable of traveling through time by running at superluminal speed.
	Temporal rewind	Users can rewind time.