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Agreed! I don't know why Sylar would want THAT power. --[[User:Cro Magnon|Cro Magnon]] 11:45, 3 February 2009 (EST)
Agreed! I don't know why Sylar would want THAT power. --[[User:Cro Magnon|Cro Magnon]] 11:45, 3 February 2009 (EST)
* How about to remotely forge checks and other documents? And it gives validating his parking ticket a whole new meaning...--[[User:MiamiVolts|MiamiVolts]] ([[User_talk:MiamiVolts|talk]]) 11:53, 3 February 2009 (EST)
* How about to remotely forge checks and other documents? And it gives validating his parking ticket a whole new meaning...--[[User:MiamiVolts|MiamiVolts]] ([[User_talk:MiamiVolts|talk]]) 11:53, 3 February 2009 (EST)
** You think he might be able to use it to change what's already written down? [[User:Intuitive Empath|Intuitive Empath]] - [[User talk:Intuitive Empath|Talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Intuitive Empath|Contributions]] 12:03, 3 February 2009 (EST)


==Animal imprinting==
==Animal imprinting==

Revision as of 17:03, 3 February 2009

Ability Naming Conventions
The following sources are used for determining evolved human ability names, in order:
1. Canon Sources Episodes
2. Near-canon Sources Webisodes,
Graphic Novels,
iStories,
Heroes Evolutions
3. Secondary Sources Episode commentary,
Interviews,
Heroes: Survival
4. Common names for abilities Names from other works
5. Descriptions of abilities
Descriptions
6. Possessor's name If no non-speculative
description is possible

Note: The highlighted row represents the level of the source used to determine imprinting's name.
Source/Explanation
"Imprinting" describes what Joe Macon can do.


Useful/Useless

Unless this can bu used to write long works wuch as papers and essays, this has got to be the most useless ability the show has ever come up with. However, if he can forge people's signatures or things like that, it can actually be quite useful. Intuitive Empath - Talk - Contributions 11:10, 3 February 2009 (EST)

Agreed! I don't know why Sylar would want THAT power. --Cro Magnon 11:45, 3 February 2009 (EST)

  • How about to remotely forge checks and other documents? And it gives validating his parking ticket a whole new meaning...--MiamiVolts (talk) 11:53, 3 February 2009 (EST)

Animal imprinting

...is what I think of first when I hear "imprinting". If someone winds up with that ability, I recommend changing this to inscribing. This name is fine for now, though.--MiamiVolts (talk) 11:53, 3 February 2009 (EST)