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| Monica will become the vigilante known as [[St. Joan]]. || In ''[[Episode:Fight or Flight|Fight or Flight]]'', [[Micah]] compares Monica's ability to that of "St. Joan" in [[:Image:9thWondersIssue10.jpg|issue #10]] of the comic series ''[[9th Wonders!]]'', which was published by [[Isaac Mendez]] until his death in ''[[.07%]]''. On at least one occasion, events depicted in ''9th Wonders!'' came true at an earlier or later date. In ''[[Truth and Consequences]]'', Micah identifies her as such. || {{plus}} Monica has already had an encounter with the criminal element of New Orleans (''[[Episode:The Kindness of Strangers|The Kindness of Strangers]]''). Should she decide to become a vigilante, she already has potential "targets". She was hesitant to take a stand before, so if she does use her powers to fight crime, it makes sense that she would do so in disguise, to protect her family.<br />
| [[Monica's iPod]] is bugged. || None || {{plus}} The Company might want to take tabs on what she learns and what she does.<br />
{{plus}} Monica has already gained the ability to defend herself simply from watching a few seconds of wrestling and a Bruce Lee movie.<br />
{{plus}} St. Joan on the cover of ''9th Wonders!'' is completely shrouded in shadow. However, a distinguishing feature of this illustration is her shoes, which are clearly visible. Later, the camera focuses on [[:Image:Powers_monica_double_dutch_3.jpg|Monica's shoes]] while she is jumping rope, which are the same as St. Joan's.<br />
{{plus}} When [[Bob]] takes Monica home, he gives her an iPod full of information she can watch and absorb and comments that [[New Orleans]] "could use a little amazing". (''[[The Line]]'')<br />
{{plus}} In ''[[Episode:Run!|Run!]]'', Micah asked his parents, "shouldn't we be fighting crime or something?" Perhaps he will push Monica into vigilantism, becoming her "techno-sidekick".<br />
{{plus}} When [[Peter]] and [[Caitlin]] travel to Future New York at the end of ''[[The Line]]'', a [[:Image:StJoan.PNG|billboard]] is seen in the background that depicts [[St. Joan]].<br />
{{plus}} The comic book depicting St. Joan could be another of [[Isaac]]'s future drawings, showing Monica as St. Joan.<br />
{{plus}} Micah identifies her as such when she wakes him up to go get his father's medal back.<br />
{{plus}} They have the same ability.<br />
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| [[Monica's iPod]] is bugged. || None. || {{plus}} The Company might want to take tabs on what she learns and what she does.<br />
{{minus}} That version of the iPod has no way of obtaining Internet.<br />
{{minus}} That version of the iPod has no way of obtaining Internet.<br />
:{{plus}} Neither do people, but radio isotopes seem to work pretty well on them.<br />
:{{plus}} Neither do people, but radio isotopes seem to work pretty well on them.<br />
:{{plus}} Furthermore, the Company could easily have modified the iPod. Even without modifying the existing electronics, a wireless bug could easily be hidden within the casing with little difficulty. If the existing electronics ''are'' modified, it would not need to have a very long range, as it could record data and simply transmit it to a hidden receiver somewhere the Company knows she will regularly go (her home, for instance).<br />
:{{plus}} Furthermore, the Company could easily have modified the iPod. Even without modifying the existing electronics, a wireless bug could easily be hidden within the casing with little difficulty. If the existing electronics ''are'' modified, it would not need to have a very long range, as it could record data and simply transmit it to a hidden receiver somewhere the Company knows she will regularly go (her home, for instance).<br />
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| Monica's [[adoptive muscle memory|ability]] is not bound to strict mimicry. She is able to unconsciously adjust a move to fit a certain situation. || None. || {{plus}} If the knife Monica used to cut tomato flowers were even slightly longer or shorter than the one on TV, she would not have been able to use it.<br />
| Monica's [[adoptive muscle memory|ability]] is not bound to strict mimicry. She is able to unconsciously adjust a move to fit a certain situation. || None || {{plus}} If the knife Monica used to cut tomato flowers were even slightly longer or shorter than the one on TV, she would not have been able to use it.<br />
{{plus}} She was able to adjust her parkour skills to fit to a specific location.<br />
{{plus}} She was able to adjust her parkour skills to fit to a specific location.<br />
{{plus}} When Monica mimics Rey Mysterio's 619, her hands are in a different position.<br />
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| Monica is actually a robot created by the Company. || [[West]] said that there are two groups of people: robots and aliens. || {{plus}} When Micah puts his hand on Monica's back, saying that he wishes he could fix her, the camera lingers for an awfully long time.<br />
| Monica wasn't part of Volume 3 because she wasn't powerful enough to fight the villains. || None || {{plus}} [[Micah]] wants her to be a hero, but in season three, the villains are too powerful. So maybe so the writers don't kill her character, they just remove her from the storyline, and bring her back in another season/volume.<br />
:{{minus}} Yet he said he was unable to fix her.<br />
{{plus}} The villains in Volume 3, such as [[Knox]] and [[Flint]], would most definitely kill her.<br />
:{{minus}} This could indicate that [[Micah]]'s ability extends to receiving nerve signals (thoughts) in addition to electronic signals from machines.<br />
{{plus}} She may return in a future season/volume, because her character has potential to be a real good character.<br />
{{plus}} Monica's "muscle mimicry" power should not account for her hands playing the piano against her will.<br />
{{minus}} Rebellion, Part 1 established that Monica was fighting criminals in New Orleans as St. Joan up until at least the start of volume 4.<br />
:{{minus}} Why not? We have seen people losing control of their abilities before.<br />
{{plus}} The Company seems awfully interested in a simple waitress from New Orleans with a fairly mundane power.<br />
:{{minus}} It's their job to investigate all evolved humans. And, besides, her ability is certainly ''not'' mundane.<br />
{{minus}} Bob wanted to inject Monica with a virus. Viruses need to infect living cells in order to survive; therefore, Monica is not a robot.<br />
:{{plus}} Maybe Bob only ''said'' it was a virus. It could have been some kind of technology that would repair, or perhaps shut down, Monica.<br />
::{{plus}} NANOROBOTS!!!<br />
{{minus}} The Company doesn't have the technology required to build robots; otherwise, they wouldn't need to clone [[Julien]].
:{{plus}} Maybe [[Mr. Muggles]] built Monica. <br />
{{minus}} Such a plot twist would be contradictory to the mythology of ''Heroes''.<br />
{{plus}} Maybe Mr. Muggles was inventing waffles but accidentally invented Monica.<br />
:{{note}} More like waffles created both Mr. Muggles and Monica.<br />
{{note}} Mr. Muggles might be a shapeshifting, brilliant robotics engineer in hiding from the Company.<br />
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| Monica will no longer appear on Heroes. || Monica's only connection to the plot-lines was through [[Micah]]. Now that Micah no longer has a place in Heroes (both of his parents are dead) it seems likely that Monica doesn't either. || {{plus}} It has been revealed that [[Angela]]'s dream was originally meant to also include [[Micah]] and [[Monica]]. However this was cut from the aired scene. There would be no reason to do this if they were still going to be regular characters.<br />
| If Monica is [[Ability supercharging|super charged]], she will be able to copy other people's ability. || None || {{plus}} She can copy difficult to almost impossible things.<br />
{{plus}} Monica will become St. Joan because of her past experience with the thugs. So being the neighborhood super-heroine will force her to stay in New Orleans with Micah.<br />
{{minus}} With [[Tracy]] in the picture, [[Micah]] may not be entirely out of the picture, and so through him, [[Monica]] may not be entirely out, either.<br />
{{plus}} There have been six episodes (probably more by the time you read this) where she is not mentioned at all. She's likely been written out of the show.<br />
{{plus}} Dana Davis, the actress who plays Monica, is busy with another show, [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1048128/ according to IMDB].<br />
{{minus}} The actress, Dana Davis, has guest starred recently on ''Pushing Daisies'' and so may still be able to squeeze in a few episodes of ''Heroes'' into her filming schedule.<br />
{{minus}} The storyline needs more heroes, if they are going to fight the villains. {{note}} [[Monica]] may be back for Volume 4.<br />
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| Monica isn't part of volume three because she isn't powerful enough to fight the villains. || None. || {{plus}} [[Micah]] wants her to be a hero, but in season three, the villains are too powerful. So maybe so the writers don't kill her character, they just remove her from the storyline, and bring her back in another season/volume.<br />
{{plus}} The villains in volume three, such as [[Knox]] and [[Flint]], would most definitely kill her.<br />
:{{minus}} Knox was [[Freezing|frozen]] by [[Tracy]], [[Flint]] may have been [[pyrokinesis|killed]] in [[Pinehearst]], [[Arthur]] was shot, and even [[Sylar]] may be [[pyrokinesis|dead]] therefore "killing off" some of the biggest villains of the show. At the moment, the biggest known threat of Volume 4 is to be hunted down- becoming "[[Fugitives]]".
{{note}} She may return in a future season/volume, because her character has potential to be a real good character.<br />
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| Monica will return in Volume Four. || None. || {{plus}} Monica has potential to be a real good character, with a very original power. If the writers were smart they would not permanently drop a character with so much potential.<br />
{{plus}} In the first scene of Volume Four, [[Fugitives]], [[The President]] looks over files of [[evolved humans]] shown to him by [[Nathan]] - one of which was [[Micah]]. Assuming that they do go after him, Monica will probably be included as well, since at the last time we saw her, he living with [[The Dawsons' home|them]].<br />
{{note}} The usage of an African American rising up to the wrongness of a government is a very common site in film and T.V. also in history too. Monica also states she wants to do more with her life, this might be her opportunity.<br />
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| If Monica is [[Ability supercharging|super charged]], she will be able to copy other people's ability. || None. || {{plus}} She can copy difficult to almost impossible things.<br />
:{{note}} All the things she copies are physically possible to her, she can only copy what she can physically perform, what superchaging this ability would do is unknown.<br />
:{{note}} All the things she copies are physically possible to her, she can only copy what she can physically perform, what superchaging this ability would do is unknown.<br />
:{{minus}} The most common limitation of those with photographic reflexes is that they cannot perform anything outside of their physical ability, and it would be unlikely that the creators of the show would give her so much power. Also, her ability does not include the ability to modify her own DNA. However, it is concievable that she would gain the ability to enhance herself to the level of the person she watches, in the event that she became supercharged, without significant modification.<br />
::{{plus}} Mere muscle memory wouldn't grant her the physical strength required to perform what we've seen her do. It's distinctly possibly that she could replicate powers through supercharging or enough experience with her ability.<br />
:{{minus}} The most common limitation of those with photographic reflexes is that they cannot perform anything outside of their physical ability, and it would be unlikely that the creators of the show would give her so much power. Also, her ability does not include the ability to modify her own DNA. However, it is conceivable that she would gain the ability to enhance herself to the level of the person she watches, in the event that she became supercharged, without significant modification.<br />
:{{note}} Rogue from [[X-Men]] had a similar ability.<br />
:{{note}} Rogue from [[X-Men]] had a similar ability.<br />
::{{note}} Rogue could absorb not only powers but other skills as well, and her absorption was proportional to the duration of the physical contact required to absorb characteristics.<br />
::{{note}} Rogue could absorb not only powers but other skills as well, and her absorption was proportional to the duration of the physical contact required to absorb characteristics.<br />
:{{note}} Monica has the grades and motivation to go to colledge, she may not appear in volume four because of going to colledge. (who knows maybe Bob gave her more behind the scenes, he was interested in her enough to test her and give her the i-pod so why not a golden spoon he can conjure in a minute.) I mean before Bob died, duh
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| Should Monica somehow [[Ability loss|lose]] her ability, she still will be able to replicate the movements she has already learned. || None || {{plus}} Monica seems not only to remember a movement, but also to strengthen her muscles and tendons to perform it, e.g. she learns a skill. Some factors can stop her from using her ability, for instance [[mental manipulation]] or the [[eclipse]], but these factors remove powers, not skills.<br />
:{{minus}} It's been stated that Monica's physical fitness is what defines what she can and can't do, as a young woman, there are lots of things she can do, but if she reaches an advanced age, she won't perform gymnast movements anymore.<br />
:{{minus}} Monica's ability allows her to use those abilities, she depends on her power to learn ''and'' use abilities, not just learn.<br />
::{{plus}} Monica can only mimic things that she is physically capable of, if she were to lose the power then it stands to reason that the talents she learns would still be accessible.<br />
:::{{note}} To put this into perspective, if Monica were to lean a skill at work either using or not using her ability it would be terribly inconvenient if that knowledge suddenly vanished upon losing use of her abilities.  This is made more clear if you think about the fact that this ability could have been passively activated since birth.  If she learned how to breath while her ability was activated and the ability was taken away, she would suffocate to death.<br />
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Monica's iPod is bugged. None + The Company might want to take tabs on what she learns and what she does.

- That version of the iPod has no way of obtaining Internet.

+ Neither do people, but radio isotopes seem to work pretty well on them.
+ Furthermore, the Company could easily have modified the iPod. Even without modifying the existing electronics, a wireless bug could easily be hidden within the casing with little difficulty. If the existing electronics are modified, it would not need to have a very long range, as it could record data and simply transmit it to a hidden receiver somewhere the Company knows she will regularly go (her home, for instance).
Monica's ability is not bound to strict mimicry. She is able to unconsciously adjust a move to fit a certain situation. None + If the knife Monica used to cut tomato flowers were even slightly longer or shorter than the one on TV, she would not have been able to use it.

+ She was able to adjust her parkour skills to fit to a specific location.
+ When Monica mimics Rey Mysterio's 619, her hands are in a different position.

Monica wasn't part of Volume 3 because she wasn't powerful enough to fight the villains. None + Micah wants her to be a hero, but in season three, the villains are too powerful. So maybe so the writers don't kill her character, they just remove her from the storyline, and bring her back in another season/volume.

+ The villains in Volume 3, such as Knox and Flint, would most definitely kill her.
+ She may return in a future season/volume, because her character has potential to be a real good character.
- Rebellion, Part 1 established that Monica was fighting criminals in New Orleans as St. Joan up until at least the start of volume 4.

If Monica is super charged, she will be able to copy other people's ability. None + She can copy difficult to almost impossible things.
All the things she copies are physically possible to her, she can only copy what she can physically perform, what superchaging this ability would do is unknown.
+ Mere muscle memory wouldn't grant her the physical strength required to perform what we've seen her do. It's distinctly possibly that she could replicate powers through supercharging or enough experience with her ability.
- The most common limitation of those with photographic reflexes is that they cannot perform anything outside of their physical ability, and it would be unlikely that the creators of the show would give her so much power. Also, her ability does not include the ability to modify her own DNA. However, it is conceivable that she would gain the ability to enhance herself to the level of the person she watches, in the event that she became supercharged, without significant modification.
Rogue from X-Men had a similar ability.
Rogue could absorb not only powers but other skills as well, and her absorption was proportional to the duration of the physical contact required to absorb characteristics.
Should Monica somehow lose her ability, she still will be able to replicate the movements she has already learned. None + Monica seems not only to remember a movement, but also to strengthen her muscles and tendons to perform it, e.g. she learns a skill. Some factors can stop her from using her ability, for instance mental manipulation or the eclipse, but these factors remove powers, not skills.
- It's been stated that Monica's physical fitness is what defines what she can and can't do, as a young woman, there are lots of things she can do, but if she reaches an advanced age, she won't perform gymnast movements anymore.
- Monica's ability allows her to use those abilities, she depends on her power to learn and use abilities, not just learn.
+ Monica can only mimic things that she is physically capable of, if she were to lose the power then it stands to reason that the talents she learns would still be accessible.
To put this into perspective, if Monica were to lean a skill at work either using or not using her ability it would be terribly inconvenient if that knowledge suddenly vanished upon losing use of her abilities. This is made more clear if you think about the fact that this ability could have been passively activated since birth. If she learned how to breath while her ability was activated and the ability was taken away, she would suffocate to death.


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