Healing touch
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| Healing touch | |
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| Originally held by: | Jeremy Greer (deceased) |
| Absorbed by: | Peter Petrelli (lost) |
| Ability to: | Heal the injuries of any living thing and kill them |
Healing touch is the ability to cause other individuals to heal injuries at an increased rate, resulting in complete recovery in a matter of seconds. In some cases the user is able to drain the life out of living subjects, thus killing them.
Characters
Confirmed
- Jeremy Greer possessed this ability. (Tabula Rasa)
- Peter Petrelli replicated this ability from Jeremy (Tabula Rasa), but discarded it in favor of flight (Brother's Keeper).
Unconfirmed
- An unnamed woman from China mentioned by Noah Bennet also possesses this ability. (Tabula Rasa)
Limits
Jeremy Greer
Jeremy had the ability to heal, but he could also use his ability to take the life out of living things. This seemed to happen whenever he experienced negative emotions, as he said that he was angry when he used his ability to kill his parents. But by thinking positively, he was able to use his ability to heal. While in anger, Jeremy killed a citizen of his town and Noah tried to get him to reverse it, but instead he chose to let him die. Later, Jeremy had the choice of using his ability to kill Deputy Gill, but didn't as he was finally able to control himself with using this ability.
Peter Petrelli
Peter initially took this ability in order to heal Hiro of his brain tumor, but Hiro teleported away before he got back and Peter never got the chance. Peter began using this ability to help people in his job as a paramedic. When two trains collided, he healed at least four people of most of their injuries on the way to the hospital (including one man who was paralyzed from at least the waist down indicating a broken back or neck) and one man with serious burns at the hospital. He also is able to control this ability enough that he heals most of the people's injuries to presumably avoid suspicion, targeting only the most serious and life-threatening ones. An example is how he healed a man's paralysis but not an apparently minor head wound he had. However, using this ability so much exhausted him with Peter describing it as the ability draining in and out of him, however he refuses to give it up and be ordinary. He later used it to heal Matt Parkman's wounds, but discarded the power in favor of flight from Sylar.
Selected Examples
Notes
- Noah says that healing abilities often evolve into abilities that can also take away a person's life force. This has been demonstrated by Jeremy Greer and an unnamed woman from China.
See Also
- For other uses of healing, see healing (disambig).
- For the similar ability to take the life force and change age, see age transferal.
- For another ability to heal injuries of living things, see healing.
- For the similar ability to detect and heal physical, mental, and emotional damage, see health optimizing.
Fan Theories
Please refer to Theory:Healing touch for fan-created theories and other speculation.
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