Healing touch
| Healing touch | |
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 Linderman revives a dying flower. | |
| Held by: | Linderman |
| Ability to: | Heal the injuries of any living thing |
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
- Mr. Linderman is the first character known to have this ability.
Limits
Linderman has demonstrated the ability to completely heal serious injuries including a bullet wound that went all the way through a man's abdomen, a broken jaw, and a spinal injury that had left Heidi Petrelli's legs paralyzed for six months. 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 Linderman 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.
During the Vietnam War, Linderman seemed to need 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 2006, he appears to be able to initiate healing with brief contact and then continue merely by holding his hand close to the subject. When healing Heidi's spinal injury, he only touched her hand, but he did hold it for several seconds.
By his own admission, Linderman cannot "bring back the dead". This apparently means that he cannot heal someone who is clinically dead, even if they have only been dead a short time. Specifically, although none of them had been dead for more than a few minutes, he could not revive members of his special operations unit who were killed in an ambush, nor could he revive Au Co. He also seems unable to cure illnesses caused by viruses and/or bacteria, otherwise he would have been able to cure Molly Walker without the assistance of Mohinder Suresh.
Linderman's healing abilities are not restricted to human beings or even animals; he seems to be able to repair damage to any living thing.
Taking all of this into account, it could be said his ability is not exactly the power to heal living things, but rather to accelerate the healing of living things - making his power quite similar to that of Claire Bennet.
Selected Examples
- While on a gunboat en route to a rescue a downed airplane, the crew (consisting of Austin, Dallas, Amarillo, San Antonio and Loredo) receive a surprise attack and all get shot, except for Austin. Everyone but Dallas dies and Austin kneels next to Dallas and heals his gun wound using his bare hands. (War Buddies, Part 2)
- Austin tells Dallas about how he was treated like a freak after he healed his mother when she was on her deathbed dying of liver cancer. (War Buddies, Part 3)
- Linderman heals a Viet Cong informant's jaw so that Dallas can hurt him many times until he speaks. (War Buddies, Part 3)
- Linderman attempts to heal Au Co but fails. (War Buddies, Part 5)
- Linderman demonstrates his powers to Nathan by healing a dying plant. (.07%)
- Linderman heals Heidi Petrelli of her paralysis. (Landslide)
Notes
- Linderman's healing is similar to Claire Bennet's regeneration power because they both have healing properties. However, they differ in that Claire has demonstrated her ability to come back from the dead, whereas Linderman specifically states that he cannot bring back the dead. Linderman is also able to heal others, whereas Claire is unable to heal anyone other than herself.
- Yamagato Fellowship has files on heroes of the past. One hero is Gawain, whose knowledge of herbs made him a great healer.
- A woman waiting to cross the Mexico-Guatemala border claimed to be a healer and attempted to heal Maya. She was unable to do so, saying that there was something "black" inside Maya and claiming that the girl was cursed. What power, if any, the woman actually has is unclear.
Gallery
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Austin first notices his power when he unexpectedly heals his mother. -
Austin places his hands on Dallas's belly wound... -
...and the wound heals... -
...until not even a scar remains. -
Linderman waves his hand over a dying flower... -
...and returns it to full bloom. -
With just a touch and a rub... -
...Heidi can walk again.
See Also
- For other uses of healing, see healing (disambig).
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