Healing
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| Healing | |
|---|---|
 Linderman revives a dying flower. | |
| Held by: | Daniel Linderman |
| Ability to: | Heal the injuries of any living thing |
| Examples of healing | |
Healing is the ability to cause other individuals to heal injuries at an increased rate, resulting in complete recovery in a matter of seconds.
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Characters
- Daniel Linderman is the only 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 can heal the brain damage caused by telepathic attacks that alter a person's behavior or memory, effectively restoring the person's original memories and personality. (Villains)
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
 Austin kneels next to Dallas and heals his gun wound using his bare hands... |
 ...and the wound heals until not even a scar remains. |
 Linderman heals a Viet Cong informant's jaw so that Dallas can continue to break it until he speaks. |
 Austin tells Dallas about how he was treated after he healed his mother of liver cancer. |
 With just a touch and a rub, Linderman heals Heidi Petrelli... |
 ...and she can walk again. |
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 without the person being injected with her blood.
- Yamagato Fellowship has files on heroes of the past. One hero is Gawain, whose knowledge of herbs made him a great healer.
- At a young age, Peter had a meeting with Linderman, but Peter has not yet displayed his ability of healing.
See Also
- For other uses of healing, see healing (disambig).
