Telekinesis

Telekinesis
Sylar levitates shards of glass.
Originally held by:	Brian Davis
Absorbed by:	Sylar, Peter Petrelli
Ability to:	Move objects with the mind
Examples of telekinesis

Telekinesis is the ability to move objects with the mind.

Characters

• Brian Davis is the first character (chronologically) to demonstrate this ability.
• Sylar has stolen this ability from Brian.
• Peter Petrelli has absorbed this ability from Sylar.

Limits

Brian Davis

Brian Davis had extremely limited telekinetic ability. With intense concentration, he was able to move a cup slowly across the surface of a table. Brian was afraid of his power, and never tried to develop it.

Sylar

Sylar has demonstrated far more advanced telekinetic abilities than Brian. He can exert enough telekinetic force to flip a truck through the air or tear sheet metal, and he has enough control to cut off the top of a person's skull to expose the brain. Sylar has repeatedly been shown using telekinesis to shield himself from bullets, as well as to augment his own physical strength. Sylar is able to use this power with relatively little concentration.

Sylar typically uses hand gestures in conjunction with telekinetic feats, although he can use this ability without them. Presumably they somehow help him to direct the power.

Sylar can simultaneously manipulate dozens of objects at once, having been shown to use swarms of locker doors (Homecoming), glass bottles (Road Kill), and glass shards (.07%) as projectile weapons. Nonetheless, when he was holding Knox and Jesse with this power, he seemed unable to restrain a third enemy, Flint (One of Us, One of Them), suggesting that he may have trouble incapacitating more than two opponents at a time, possibly due his hands being used to help him direct his power.

Peter Petrelli

Peter Petrelli is more powerful than Brian was, but not as adept as Sylar; he was able to stop Claude from striking him with a mop handle and throw Sylar across a room. By pushing an armored car, he has shown that he can exert large amounts of force, but his fine control does not match Sylar's. His control, however, seems to be developing: in March, 2007, he forced open an exceptionally secure vault door, although he got a nose bleed in the process, and delicately caught a vial of the virus just before it hit the floor (Powerless).

With the understanding of intuitive aptitude, Peter's telekinetic ability appeared to improve dramatically. He gained much finer control, to the point where he was able to literally weld a broken watch gear together telekinetically. Peter also demonstrated enough fine control to be able to make a precise incision into Nathan's skull (I Am Become Death) and also into Angela's skull (Angels and Monsters).

Like Sylar, Peter typically gestures when using his telekinetic ability.

Selected Examples

• 
  Sylar telekinetically turns a gun on Audrey.
  (One Giant Leap)
• 
  Sylar uses telekinesis to slice the foreheads of some of his victims.
  (Homecoming)
• 
  Sylar rips metal doors off of lockers at Claire's school, then throws them at Peter.
  (Homecoming)
• 
  Sylar pulls Eden through the glass of his cell.
  (Fallout)
• 
  Brian is the first person to display the power, as he moves a cup across a table in Gabriel Gray's watch repair shop.
  (Six Months Ago)
• 
  Sylar pins Peter and Mohinder to the wall and ceiling.
  (Parasite)
• 
  Sylar stops bullets in mid-air.
  (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
• 
  Sylar "holds" Knox in place.(One of Us, One of Them)

Memorable Quotes

"We've pieced a trail across a dozen states. All people impaled by household objects. Bones broken. All without any traceable sign of physical contact. But only some of them involve any mutilation of the head or neck, so they don't see the connections."

- Audrey (to Matt) (One Giant Leap)

"Brian Davis, you think he's ... telekinetic? Moves things with his mind, or are you just gonna toss him aside too?"

- Sylar (to Chandra) (Six Months Ago)

"You pushed that away with your mind. Which one of your sorry friends has telekinesis?"

"None of 'em do. Oh, right, that guy who was chasing Claire in Texas. He sent some lockers flying at me."

- Claude, Peter (Unexpected)

Notes

• Chandra Suresh referred to Brian Davis's power as "telekinesis". The Mozaic file mentions "psychokinesis". In common usage, the two terms often refer to the same power.

See also

• For the similar ability to lift even extremely heavy objects without physical contact, please see levitation.

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