Telekinesis

Telekinesis
Sylar levitates shards of glass.
Originally held by:	Brian Davis
Absorbed by:	Sylar, Peter Petrelli
Ability to:	Move objects with the mind
Examples of telekinesis

Telekinesis is the ability to move objects with the mind.

Characters

• Brian Davis is the first character (chronologically) to demonstrate this ability.
• Sylar has stolen this ability from Brian.
• Peter Petrelli has absorbed this ability from Sylar.

Limits

Brian Davis

Brian Davis had extremely limited telekinetic ability. With intense concentration, he was able to move a cup slowly across the surface of a table. Brian was afraid of his power, and never tried to develop it.

Sylar

Sylar has demonstrated far more advanced telekinetic abilities than Brian, probably because Sylar has actively developed the power. He can exert enough telekinetic force to flip a truck through the air or tear sheet metal, and he has enough control to cut off the top of a person's skull to expose the brain. Sylar has repeatedly been shown using telekinesis to shield himself from bullets, as well as to augment his own physical strength. Sylar is able to use this power with relatively little concentration.

Sylar can simultaneously manipulate dozens of objects at once, having been shown to use swarms of locker doors (Homecoming), glass bottles (Road Kill), and glass shards (.07%) as projectile weapons. Nonetheless, he can apparently focus on no more than two independent targets at a time; when he was holding Knox and Jesse with this power, he was unable to restrain a third enemy, Flint (One of Us, One of Them).

Sylar did not use his power directly against Peter after he turned invisible (.07%), suggesting that the target of this power must be visible to the user (if not actually in line of sight) or its location must be clearly known.

Peter Petrelli

Peter Petrelli is more powerful than Brian was, but not as adept as Sylar; he was able to stop Claude from striking him with a mop handle and throw Sylar across a room. By pushing an armored car, he has shown that he can exert large amounts of force, but his fine control does not match Sylar's. His control, however, seems to be developing: in March, 2007, he forced open an exceptionally secure vault door, although he got a nose bleed in the process, and delicately caught a vial of the virus just before it hit the floor (Powerless).

Selected Examples

• 
  Sylar telekinetically turns a gun on Audrey.
  (One Giant Leap)
• 
  Sylar uses telekinesis to slice the foreheads of some of his victims.
  (Homecoming)
• 
  Sylar rips metal doors off of lockers at Claire's school, then throws them at Peter.
  (Homecoming)
• 
  Sylar pulls Eden through the glass of his cell.
  (Fallout)
• 
  Brian is the first person to display the power, as he moves a cup across a table in Gabriel Gray's watch repair shop.
  (Six Months Ago)
• 
  Sylar pins Peter and Mohinder to the wall and ceiling.
  (Parasite)
• 
  Sylar stops bullets in mid-air.
  (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
• 
  Peter pins Will against the wall.
  (Kindred)

Memorable Quotes

"We've pieced a trail across a dozen states. All people impaled by household objects. Bones broken. All without any traceable sign of physical contact. But only some of them involve any mutilation of the head or neck, so they don't see the connections."

- Audrey (to Matt) (One Giant Leap)

"Brian Davis, you think he's ... telekinetic? Moves things with his mind, or are you just gonna toss him aside too?"

- Sylar (to Chandra) (Six Months Ago)

"You pushed that away with your mind. Which one of your sorry friends has telekinesis?"

"None of 'em do. Oh, right, that guy who was chasing Claire in Texas. He sent some lockers flying at me."

- Claude, Peter (Unexpected)

Notes

• Chandra Suresh referred to Brian Davis's power as "telekinesis". The Mozaic file mentions "psychokinesis". In common usage, the two terms often refer to the same power.

See also

• For the similar ability to lift even extremely heavy objects without physical contact, please see levitation.