User:Catalyst/Active and Passive Abilities

All of the abilities shown in Heroes can be classified into two types: those that are active, meaning the user has to make a decision to use his/her ability or not at a given time, and those that are passive, meaning the mechanism that makes the ability work is constantly active and the possessor cannot choose not to use his/her ability.

Active Abilities

The following abilities are active in nature. The users of these abilities can decide whether to use their particular ability or not. The users of some of these abilities also have control over the manner in which they use the ability, for example how much electricity to apply or what ability to replicate.

In Episodes

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To Acquire Abilities

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Ability replication	None	Peter Petrelli (synthetic)
	The ability to replicate one ability at a time through physical contact
	Power absorption	Arthur Petrelli	None
	The ability to steal another's ability, rendering them powerless

Biological

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Alejandro's ability	None	Alejandro Herrera
	The ability to absorb and counter the effects of Maya's ability
	Body insertion	Peter Petrelli (exposed future)	None
	The ability to insert a person into someone else's body
	Healing	Daniel Linderman, Ishi Nakamura	None
	The ability to heal the wounds of others
	Metal mimicry	Danny Pine	None
	The ability to transmute one's own body into metal
	Poison emission	Maya Herrera (lost), Arthur Petrelli	None
	The ability to harm or kill people in the immediate area by emitting a deadly poison

Electronical

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Electronic communication	Hana Gitelman, Richard Drucker	None
	The ability to intercept, generate, and interpret electronic, digital, and radio transmissions with one's mind
	Technopathy	None	Micah Sanders
	The ability to control and manipulate technology with the mind

Energy

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Ability supercharging	Paulette Hawkins	Ando Masahashi (synthetic)
	The ability to supercharge other evolved human abilities
	Electric manipulation	Agent, Elle Bishop, Peter Petrelli (lost), (Explosion / Exposed), Arthur Petrelli	Sylar
	The ability to create and direct electrical arcs
	Freezing	James Walker, Sylar (lost), Peter Petrelli (lost)	Tracy Strauss (synthetic)
	The ability to reduce temperatures and freeze objects by force of will
	Induced radioactivity	Ted Sprague, Peter Petrelli (lost), Sylar (lost) (Exposed)	None
	The ability to manipulate the movement of subatomic particles, thus generating and emitting toxic radiation
	Microwave emission	None	Luke Campbell
	The ability to emit rays of microwaves from one's hands
	Pyrokinesis	Meredith Gordon, Flint Gordon, Jr. Peter Petrelli (lost), (Explosion), Maarten, Iris	None
	The ability to create and control fire using the power of the mind
	Seismic burst	Mr. Shaw	None
	The ability to repel objects away from one's self.

Mental

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Activation and deactivation	None	Matt Parkman, Jr.
	The ability to activate and deactivate various objects
	Clairsentience	Bridget Bailey	Sylar
	The ability to perceive the history of an object by touching it
	Clairvoyance	None	Molly Walker
	The ability to see distant people and things
	Dream manipulation	None	Sanjog Iyer
	The ability to manipulate the dreams of others
	Illusion	Candice Willmer, Crazy Tom, Sylar II, Peter Petrelli III	None
	The ability to alter the perceptions of others
	Magnetism	The German, Magnetism terrorist	None
	The ability to manipulate ferrous objects and materials
	Mental manipulation	Arthur Petrelli	The Haitian
	The ability to manipulate others' minds, causing them to lose memories or be prevented from using mental powers
	Puppet master	None	Eric Doyle
	The ability to control the motor functions of people and objects
	Sedation	None	Samson Gray
	The ability to lull victims into a sedated state.
	Telekinesis	Brian Davis, Peter Petrelli (lost), Arthur Petrelli	Sylar, Samson Gray Misha
	The ability to move objects with the mind
	Telepathy	Maury Parkman, Charles Deveaux, Peter Petrelli (lost), Arthur Petrelli	Matt Parkman
	The ability to mentally control functions of the brain
	Trevor's ability	Trevor Zeitlan Sylar (lost)	None
	The ability to shatter objects without physical contact
	Weather control	Albert Rossling "The Croatian"	Alice Shaw
	The ability to control the weather

Physical

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Adoptive muscle memory	None	Monica Dawson
	The ability to replicate any physical action after seeing it performed
	Empathy	None	Lydia
	The ability to feel the emotions, thoughts, hopes, desires, and dream of others
	Enhanced strength	Niki Sanders (synthetic), Knox, Scott (synthetic), Peter Petrelli (lost)	Mohinder Suresh (synthetic), Michael Fitzgerald
	The ability to exert greater than normal physical force
	Flight	Nathan Petrelli (synthetic), Peter Petrelli (lost), Sylar (explosion future)	West Rosen, Angie
	The ability to propel oneself through the air
	Gravitational manipulation	Stephen Canfield	None
	The ability to create gravitational vacuums
	Invisibility	Peter Petrelli (lost)	Claude Rains
	The ability to not be seen
	Shape shifting	James Martin	Sylar
	The ability to shift one's physical characteristics to match another's
	Phasing	D.L. Hawkins, Samir Mellouk, Sylar (explosion future), Peter Petrelli (lost)	None
	The ability to pass through solid objects at will
	Precognition	Isaac Mendez, Peter Petrelli (lost), Sylar (lost) (Exposed), Arthur Petrelli, Usutu	None
	The ability to accurately predict future events through paintings
	Space-time manipulation	Hiro Nakamura (partially restored), Peter Petrelli (lost), Arthur Petrelli	Arnold
	The ability to alter the space-time continuum, including slowing down, speeding up, reversing, stopping, moving backwards and forwards through time, and moving instantaneously through space
	Super speed	Daphne Millbrook, Peter Petrelli (lost), (Explosion), Agent	Edgar
	The ability to move at a higher rate than normal
	Terrakinesis	None	Samuel Sullivan, Sparrow Redhouse
	The ability to control geologic materials such as dirt and rocks

Transmutation

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Alchemy	Bob Bishop	Sylar
	The ability to change the molecular composition of any material to gold
	Melting	Zane Taylor, Sylar (lost)	None
	The ability to melt solid materials
	Tom's ability	Tom Miller	Sylar
	The ability to disintegrate objects without physical contact

Vocal

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Persuasion	Eden McCain	None
	The ability to force others to obey one's spoken commands
	Sound manipulation	Echo DeMille, Jesse Murphy	Sylar
	The ability to manipulate sound waves using one's voice

In Graphic Novels

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To Acquire Abilities

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Aura absorption	None	Linda Tavara
	The ability to see auras and take the lives and powers of others

Biological

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Acid secretion	None	Leonard Cushing
	The ability to generate highly corrosive fluids
	Bone spike protrusion	None	Perrin Crocker
	The ability to create bone spikes that protrude from one's body
	Chlorine gas exudation	None	Tina Ramierez
	The ability to exhale chlorine gas instead of carbon dioxide
	Cloning	None	Julien Dumont, Evan
	The ability to vegetatively replicate oneself and produce identical clones
	Elasticity	None	Piper
	The ability to to stretch, deform, expand, and contract one's body
	Plant growth	None	Au Co
	The ability to accelerate plant growth
	Plant manipulation	None	Brendan Lewis
	The ability to mimic and create plants and other vegetation
	Oil secretion	None	Howie Kaplan
	The ability to secrete oil from one's hands

Electronical

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Light absorption	None	Abe
	The ability to absorb light

Energy

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Electrical absorption	Benjamin Franklin	Teenage patient
	The ability to absorb and subsequently release electrical energy
	Laser emission	Michael	None
	The ability to generate a beam of coherent light
	Luminescence	Howard Grigsby	None
	The ability to emit light from one's body

Mental

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Age shifting	The Russian	None
	The ability to change one's own age
	Dehydration	Rollo Fusor's accomplice	None
	The ability to remove the water contained in objects or people by force of will
	Levitation	Abu Aswan, Khufu and his kin	None
	The ability to levitate and move extremely heavy objects
	Neurocognitive deficit	None	Anna Korolenko
	The ability to shut down the upper brain functions of surrounding individuals

Physical

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Appearance alteration	Connie Logan	None
	The ability to change the skin, hair, and vocal cords of another person
	Crumpling	None	Marcus
	The ability to crumple and deform objects
	Disintegration touch	None	Felicia Brooks
	Felicia's name for her evolved ability
	Forcefields	None	Abigail
	The ability to create and manipulate forcefields
	Future terrorist's ability	Future terrorist	None
	The ability to shoot a concentrated flow of green energy or liquid from the hand
	Gordon's ability	Gordon Hovey	None
	The ability to turn things into sand.
	Imprinting	Joe Macon	Sylar
	The ability to mentally imprint marks onto surfaces
	Telescopic vision	Donna Dunlap	None
	The ability to see clearly in darkness and magnify vision to various levels

Evolutions

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Biological

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Age transferal	None	Leona Mills
	The ability to transfer the aging and life force to and from an object and make the user younger or older
	Constriction	None	The Constrictor
	The ability to mimic the attributes of a constricting snake, including squeezing extra-tightly with one's body, numbing with one's touch and gender neutrality
	Water mimicry	None	"Liquid man", Elisa, Donald Essex
	The ability to mimic water

Mental

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Primal rage	None	Ricardo Silva
	The ability to induce an uncontrollable rage in others

Physical

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Accelerated probability	None	Santiago, Edward
	The ability to predict the probability of a certain event correctly and accelerate one's self to achieve those predictions
	Teleportation	Manuel Garcia	Rachel Mills
	The ability to instantly move between two locations

Passive Abilities

The following abilities are passive in nature. The users of these abilities cannot choose not to use their particular ability because the mechanism responsible for the ability cannot be turned off (or at the very least have not yet learned to turn said mechanism off). For example, Regenerators like Claire cannot choose to leave their wounds open and gaping, their body automatically and very quickly heals the wound independent of any thinking on the regenerator's part.

In Episodes

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To Acquire Abilities

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Empathic mimicry	Peter Petrelli (lost), Arthur Petrelli	None
	The ability to duplicate the powers of other evolved humans within proximity and reproduce them at will when thinking about the original source of the power
	Intuitive aptitude	Peter Petrelli (lost)	Sylar, Samson Gray
	The ability to analyze complex systems and intuitively understand how they work without special education or training

Biological

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Rapid cell regeneration	Peter Petrelli (lost), Adam Monroe, Arthur Petrelli	Claire Bennet, Sylar
	The ability to heal wounds quickly without any scarring

Mental

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Enhanced memory	Charlie Andrews, Matt Neuenberg Sylar (lost)	None
	The ability to quickly absorb and accurately retain great amounts of information
	Lie detection	Sue Landers	Sylar
	The ability to detect when others lie
	Precognitive dreaming	Peter Petrelli (lost)	Angela Petrelli
	The ability to see the future through dreams

Physical

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Enhanced hearing	Dale Smither, Sylar (lost)	None
	The ability to hear sounds beyond normal limits
	Impenetrable skin	None	Baron Samedi
	The ability of one's skin to not be penetrated by anything
	Mohinder's ability	Mohinder Suresh (synthetic, corrected)	None
	The ability to possess enhanced human senses, instinct, and strength
	Underwater breathing	None	Alex Woolsly
	The ability to breathe underwater

In Graphic Novels

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Mental

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Bliss and horror	Guillame	None
	The ability to bring about feelings of bliss and horror in others
	Mediumship	Ida May Walker	Linda Tavara
	The ability to view the spirits of the deceased
	Nerve gas emission	Manhattan target	None
	The ability to emit nerve gas when sweating

Physical

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Lung adaptation	Bianca Karina	None
	The ability to adapt one's lungs to any environment
	Sound absorption	None	Agent
	The ability to absorb and nullify sound waves
	Wall crawling	None	Harmon
	The ability to crawl up walls effortlessly

Vocal

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Omnilingualism	None	Traveler
	The ability to automatically understand all verbal and non-verbal communication

Evolutions

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Biological

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	Acidic blood	Mary Krause	None
	The ability to have acidic blood

Physical

	Power	Former Users	Current Users
	David's ability	David Sullivan (synthetic)	None
	The ability to growl and charge at others viciously

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