Healing touch

Healing touch
Austin heals Dallas's wound.
Held by:	Austin
Ability to:	Heal the injuries of other people

Healing is the ability to cause other individuals to heal injuries at an increased rate, resulting in complete recovery in a matter of seconds.

Characters

Austin is the only character known to have this ability.

Limits

Austin has demonstrated the ability to completely heal serious injuries including a bullet wound that went all the way through a man's abdomen and a broken jaw. He was also able to heal the damage caused by his mother's liver cancer, but it is unclear whether he fully "cured" the disease.

It is not currently known if Austin could have healed Dallas's injury if the bullet was still in the wound. It is also not known if he can heal his own injuries.

Austin apparently needs to be in physical contact with the sick or injured person -- touching the wound, if possible -- for at least several seconds to cause healing.

By his own admission, Austin can not "bring back the dead".

Examples

• Austin heals Dallas's bullet wound. (War Buddies, Part 2)
• Austin heals a Vietnamese soldier's broken jaw repeatedly. (War Buddies, Part 3)
• In a flashback, Austin cures his mother's cancer. (War Buddies, Part 3)

Notes

• Austin's healing power seems to be more limited than Claire Bennet's regeneration power, in that she has demonstrated her ability to come back from the dead, whereas he specifically states that he cannot bring back the dead.

Gallery

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  During the Vietnam War, Dallas is hit by enemy fire.
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  Austin places his hands on Dallas's abdomen...
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  ...and completely heals the wound.
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  Austin heals a Viet Cong informant's broken jaw at least ten times.
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  Austin heals his mother cancer.
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  Austin imagines himself healing wounded soldiers during the Vietnam War.