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Telepathy is the ability to hear other's thoughts.
'''Telepathy''' is the [[ability]] to hear others' thoughts.


==Characters==
==Characters==
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==Limits==
==Limits==
Matt has limited control over his ability. He can actively focus on the thoughts of a particular person, but he sometimes picks up thoughts at random from people in his vicinity, and he can have difficulty "blocking" the thoughts of agitated individuals or crowds.He can be overwhelmed by intense thoughts, as happened in the episode [[Hiros]].
Matt has limited control over his ability. He can actively focus on the thoughts of a particular person, but he sometimes picks up thoughts at random from people in his vicinity, and he can have difficulty "blocking" the thoughts of agitated individuals or crowds. He can be overwhelmed by intense thoughts, as happened in the [[convenience store robber|convenience store]]. (''[[Hiros]]'')


He is also unable to read [[the Haitian]]'s mind and others that the Haitian is "screening" against mental intrusion. With extreme effort, however, Matt can occasionally pick up a word or two through the Haitian's interference.
He is unable to read [[the Haitian]]'s mind, and the minds of others that the Haitian is "screening" against [[mental manipulation|mental intrusion]]. With extreme effort, however, Matt can occasionally pick up a word or two through the Haitian's interference.


Matt's telepathic abilities seem to have a limited range; he has not been seen to pick up thoughts from anyone more than a few hundred feet away. He does not require a line of sight to pick up thoughts, but it seems to help.
Matt's telepathic abilities seem to have a limited range; he has not been seen to pick up thoughts from anyone more than a few hundred feet away. He does not require a line of sight to pick up thoughts, but it seems to help.


==Examples==
==Examples==
* Matt reads [[Molly Walker]]'s mind at the scene of her parent's murder. (''[[Episode:Don't Look Back|Don't Look Back]]'')
* Matt reads [[Molly Walker]]'s mind at [[The Walkers' home|the scene]] of her parents' [[Sylar's victims|murders]]. (''[[Episode:Don't Look Back|Don't Look Back]]'')
* When Matt is being tested by [[Mr. Bennet]], he manages to read one word of his thoughts. (''[[Episode:Collision|Collision]]'')
* Matt overhears [[Audrey]] thinking the name [[Sylar]]. (''[[Episode:Don't Look Back|Don't Look Back]]'')
* Matt verbally answers [[Janice Parkman|his wife's]] thoughts that she wants Matt to leave. (''[[One Giant Leap]]'')
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* [[Peter]] copies Matt's power (using [[power mimicry]]) and they both read each other's minds. The telepathy mimicry also created a disturbing [[Media:powers_peter_matt.ogg|feedback loop]] between the two men. (''[[Episode:Fallout|Fallout]]'')
* Matt listens in on [[Audrey]] thinking, "He's cute". (''[[Episode:Fallout|Fallout]]'')
* Matt listens to bar patrons' thoughts (but passes out when concentrating on [[the Haitian]]). (''[[One Giant Leap]]'')
* When Matt is being tested by [[Mr. Bennet]], he manages to read one word of his thoughts: "[[Claire]]". (''[[Episode:Collision|Collision]]'')
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* Matt picks up the word "[[Sylar]]" from Mr. Bennet's thoughts, despite [[the Haitian|the Haitian's]] interference. ([[Fallout]])
* Matt uses his powers to plan the perfect date with his wife. (''[[Hiros]]'')
* The officer stops a would-be [[convenience store robber]] by reading his mind, only to be overcome by the terrified thoughts of others. (''[[Hiros]]'')
* Matt telepathically uncovers the affair between his wife and [[Tom McHenry|his partner]]. (''[[Nothing to Hide]]'')
* Matt defuses a tense situation with [[Theodore Sprague|a potential killer]] by reading his comatose [[Karen Sprague|wife's]] thoughts. (''[[Nothing to Hide]]'')
* Matt interrogates an easily agitated Ted with the aid of his power. (''[[Seven Minutes to Midnight]]'')
* Matt presumably reads his first thought: "Hero". (''[[Six Months Ago]]'')
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* [[Peter]] [[power mimicry|copies]] Matt's power, and they read each other's minds. The telepathy mimicry also created a disturbing [[Media:powers_peter_matt.ogg|feedback loop]] between the two men. (''[[Episode:Fallout|Fallout]]'')
* Matt listens to [[Audrey]] mentally musing, "He's cute." (''[[Episode:Fallout|Fallout]]'')
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* Matt struggles to pick up the word — "[[Sylar]]" — from Mr. Bennet's thoughts, despite [[the Haitian|the Haitian's]] interference. (''[[Fallout]]'')


==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Matt's Brainwaves.jpg|Matt's attempts to read Mr. Bennet's mind show wild brainwave fluctuations.
Image:Powers matt.jpg|Matt is overcome by the mental cacophony in the [[convenience store robber|convenience store]].
Image:Matt audrey ted fbi.jpg|The telepathic officer interviews [[Ted]] at [[FBI Headquarters]].
Image:Matt nosebleed.jpg|Matt's intense telepathic concentration results in a single word and a nosebleed.
</gallery>
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Revision as of 02:48, 12 December 2006

Telepathy

Matt can hear thoughts
Held by: Matt Parkman
Ability to: Hear others' thoughts
Examples of telepathy

Telepathy is the ability to hear others' thoughts.

Characters

Matt Parkman is the only character known to have this ability.

Limits

Matt has limited control over his ability. He can actively focus on the thoughts of a particular person, but he sometimes picks up thoughts at random from people in his vicinity, and he can have difficulty "blocking" the thoughts of agitated individuals or crowds. He can be overwhelmed by intense thoughts, as happened in the convenience store. (Hiros)

He is unable to read the Haitian's mind, and the minds of others that the Haitian is "screening" against mental intrusion. With extreme effort, however, Matt can occasionally pick up a word or two through the Haitian's interference.

Matt's telepathic abilities seem to have a limited range; he has not been seen to pick up thoughts from anyone more than a few hundred feet away. He does not require a line of sight to pick up thoughts, but it seems to help.

Examples

  • Matt's attempts to read Mr. Bennet's mind show wild brainwave fluctuations.
    Matt's attempts to read Mr. Bennet's mind show wild brainwave fluctuations.
  • Matt is overcome by the mental cacophony in the convenience store.
    Matt is overcome by the mental cacophony in the convenience store.
  • The telepathic officer interviews Ted at FBI Headquarters.
    The telepathic officer interviews Ted at FBI Headquarters.
  • Matt's intense telepathic concentration results in a single word and a nosebleed.
    Matt's intense telepathic concentration results in a single word and a nosebleed.


Evolved Human Abilities edit
Abilities

Ability absorption • Ability replication • Activation and deactivation • Adoptive muscle memory • Alchemy • Alejandro's ability • Aquatic breathing • Clairsentience • Clairvoyance • Cloaking • Cloning • Cyberpathy • Disintegration • Dream manipulation • Electric manipulation • Elemental control • Empathic mimicry • Empathy • Enhanced hearing • Enhanced memory • Enhanced strength • Enhanced strength and senses • Enhanced synesthesia • Fire breathing • Flight • Freezing • Gravitational manipulation • Hachiro's ability • Healing • Healing touch • Heat generation • Illusion • Image projection • Impenetrable skin • Induced radioactivity • Intuitive aptitude • Invisibility • Lie detection • Luke's ability • Magnetism • Melting • Memory manipulation • Memory storage • Mental manipulation • Metal mimicry • Microwave emission • Miko's ability • Mist mimicry • Persuasion • Phasing • Plant growth • Poison emission • Possession • Precognition • Precognitive dreaming • Puppet master • Pyrokinesis • Rapid cell regeneration • Sedation • Seismic burst • Shape shifting • Shattering • Sound manipulation • Space-time manipulation • Spontaneous combustion • Super speed • Supercharging • Technopathy • Telekinesis • Telepathy • Terrakinesis • Umbrakinesis • Weather control

Evolutions Abilities

Accelerated probability • Acidic blood • Age transferal • Animal control • Belief induction • Carbon isolation and formation • Constriction • Danger sensing • David's ability • Dimension hopping • Dimensional storage • Empathic manipulation • Enhanced breath • Enhanced teleporting • Extraskeletal manipulation • Fireworks creation • Health optimizing • Inflammation • Light absorption • Light manipulation • Nerve manipulation • Non-biological duplication • Phoenix mimicry • Plasmakinesis • Primal rage • Probability computation • Rock formation • Shifting • Teleportation • Temporal rewind • Water generation • Water mimicry

Graphic Novel Abilities

Ability augmentation • Acid secretion • Age shifting • Appearance alteration • Aura absorption • Bliss and horror • Bone spike protrusion • Chlorine gas exudation • Crumpling • Dehydration • Disintegration touch • Elasticity • Electrical absorption • Energy absorption, transference, and redirection • Fire casting • Forcefields • Future terrorist's ability • Gold mimicry • Granulation • Green energy blast • Imprinting • Laser emission • Levitation • Luminescence • Lung adaptation • Mass manipulation • Mediumship • Nerve gas emission • Neurocognitive deficit • Oil secretion • Omnilingualism • Plant manipulation • Sound absorption • Spider mimicry • Telescopic vision • Wall crawling

See Also: Ability development • Ability extension • Ability heredity • Ability immunity • Ability loss • Ability theft • Brain examination • Brain penetration • Unnamed abilities • Examples of simultaneous ability use • Eye alteration • List of abilities • List of abilities with multiple users • Paradox • Prophecy • Rift • Power • Examples of telepathy
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