Adoptive muscle memory

Adoptive muscle memory
Monica replicates a wrestling move she saw on television.
Held by:	Monica Dawson
Ability to:	replicate any physical action
Examples of adoptive muscle memory

Muscle mimicry is the ability to replicate any physical action after seeing it performed once.

Characters

• Monica Dawson is the only character known to have this ability.

Limits

Monica's power requires that she actually see the action but it does not have to be in person. It seems that Monica can perform this power without having to actively concentrate. She cut the tomato into a rose without consciously thinking about her action. Monica was also surprised after she performed the wrestling move instinctively. In Fight or Flight, she states that she's unable to play the piano while unknowingly playing the piano. Micah realized she was playing before Monica did.

Examples

• Monica carves a tomato into a rose after seeing the action performed by a cooking show host. (The Kindness of Strangers)
• Monica knocks out a robber by using a move she saw a wrestler perform. (The Kindness of Strangers)
• Monica starts playing the piano unconsciously after watching Micah do the same. (Fight or Flight)
• Monica learns double dutch after watching another girl do the same. (Fight or Flight)
• Monica replicates several advanced martial arts moves after seeing Jason Scott Lee do the same moves on television. (Fight or Flight)

Notes

• In a CBR Q&A session, Joe Pokaski and Aron Coleite elaborated on Monica's powers. "Monica can only do things within her physical limit. Now as an athletic 20-year-old girl, there are a lot of things within her limit. But, no--if she saw Nathan fly, she couldn't fly."
• Micah identifies St. Joan, from a 9th Wonders! comic, as a muscle mimic. (Fight or Flight)

Gallery

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  After a cooking show host makes a tomato rosette...
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  ...Monica absentmindedly replicates the skill.
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  Monica registers the movements of a wrestler...
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  ...including his signature 619 move...
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  ...and performs the action on a robber at Burger Bonanza.
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  Monica watches Micah play the piano...
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  ...and joins him...
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  ...but is shocked to see herself playing.
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  Monica successfully recalls a previously learned skill to create more tomato roses.
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  Monica watches some girls playing Double Dutch...
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  ...records their movements...
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  ...and copies them perfectly.
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  Monica sees a martial artist do a kippup...
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  ...and copies it.
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  The martial artist does a flip...
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  ...and Monica is right behind.