User:Cockney Heroes/Abilities/Activation and Deactivation

Activation and Deactivation
Janice tells Matt Parkman Jr. to turn on the TV.
Held by:	Matt Parkman, Jr., Jenny
Ability to:	Activate and deactivate nearby systems

'Activation allows the user to activate and deactivate various mechanisms, both electronic and biological.

Characters

• Matt Parkman, Jr. has this ability.
• Jenny

Limits

Matt Parkman, Jr.

Matt Parkman, Jr and Jenny can activate and deactivate electronic devices near him, switching them on or off. He can also activate evolved human abilities by touch.

Hiro and Ando first realize that Matt, Jr. has an ability when he uses it to switch the television in his house on and off. Even when the television set is unplugged, Matt Jr. is able to turn it on by touching it. Similarly, he activates several electronic toys by touching them.

When the house is attacked, Matt partially restores Hiro's ability by touching him. The touch only restored the time-stopping aspect of Hiro's ability; he was unable to teleport.

In Turn and Face the Strange, Matt's power affects an automobile and a truck at short range; the baby is able to switch them on or off without reaching out of his car seat to touch the vehicle itself. The truck driver finds that he is able to start his truck again when Hiro and Ando move the "magic baby" back to their own vehicle, showing that the range of young Matt's ability isn't more than about ten meters.

In Turn and Face the Strange, Hiro and Ando also discover that Matt's mood affects his ability: when he is unhappy, he deactivates the vehicles; when happy, he activates them. Young Matt later activates some nearby toy cars when united with his father.

Jenny

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Examples

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  Matt Parkman, Jr. activates toys such as a monkey doll...
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  ...a toy plane...
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  ...and a toy robot.
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  Matt Parkman Jr. activates Hiro's ability.
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  Matt uses his power to operate the Nissan Cube...
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  ...as well as an electronic cart in a Valumart store...
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  ...and a forklift...
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  ...which he enjoys playing and causes havoc with.
  (Baby Power)

See Also

• For the similar ability supercharge abilities, see ability supercharging.
• For the similar ability to interact with electronics, see technopathy.