Adoptive muscle memory

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Adoptive muscle memory
Monica replicates a difficult gymnastics move.
Held by:	Monica Dawson
Ability to:	Replicate any physical action
Examples of adoptive muscle memory

Adoptive muscle memory, also referred to as muscle mimicry, is the ability to replicate any physical action after seeing it performed once.

Contents 1 Characters 2 Limits 3 Selected Examples 4 Notes 5 See Also

Characters

• Monica Dawson is the only character known to have this ability.

Limits

Monica's ability requires that she actually see the action but it does not have to be in person. Monica can perform her ability with or without active concentration. She cut a tomato into a rose without consciously thinking about her action. Monica was also surprised after she performed the wrestling move instinctively. In Fight or Flight, she states that she's unable to play the piano, as she plays the piano. Micah realized Monica was playing before she realized it herself.

It is currently not clear whether Monica retains an acquired skill permanently or "forgets" it after a period of time.

Selected Examples

Monica carves a tomato into a rose after seeing the action performed by a cooking show host. (The Kindness of Strangers)	Monica sees a wrestler perform a move...	...and later knocks out a robber with it. (The Kindness of Strangers)	Monica starts playing the piano subconsciously after watching Micah do the same. (Fight or Flight)
Monica successfully recalls a previously learned skill to create more tomato roses. (Fight or Flight)	Monica learns double dutch after watching another girl do the same. (Fight or Flight)	Monica replicates several advanced martial arts moves after seeing Jason Scott Lee do the same moves in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. (Fight or Flight)	Monica performs a series of acrobatic handsprings and backflips for Mohinder at a Company research facility. (The Line)

Notes

• In a CBR Q&A session, Joe Pokaski and Aron Coleite elaborated on Monica's powers. "Monica can only do things within her physical limit. Now as an athletic 20-year-old girl, there are a lot of things within her limit. But, no—if she saw Nathan fly, she couldn't fly."
• Micah identifies St. Joan, from a 9th Wonders! comic, as a muscle mimic. (Fight or Flight)

See Also

• For other uses of memory, see memory (disambig).
• For other uses of mimic, see mimic (disambig).

Evolved Human Abilities edit
Abilities	Adoptive muscle memory • Alchemy • Alejandro's ability • Clairsentience • Clairvoyance • Constriction • Dream manipulation • Electronic communication • Empathic mimicry • Enhanced hearing • Enhanced memory • Flight • Freezing • Healing • Illusion • Induced radioactivity • Intuitive aptitude • Invisibility • Lightning • Magnetism • Melting • Mental manipulation • Persuasion • Phasing • Poison emission • Precognition • Pyrokinesis • Rapid cell regeneration • Sound manipulation • Space-time manipulation • Super strength • Technopathy • Telekinesis • Telepathy
Graphic Novel Abilities	Ability augmentation • Acid secretion • Appearance alteration • Aura absorption • Bliss and horror • Cloning • Crumpling • Dehydration • Disintegration touch • Elasticity • Electrical absorption • Electromagnetism • Enhanced speed • Levitation • Luminescence • Lung adaptation • Mediumship • Nerve gas emission • Omnilingualism • Plant growth • Plant manipulation • Sound absorption • Telescopic vision • Water mimicry
See Also: Ability extension • Ability heredity • Ability theft • List of abilities • List of abilities with multiple users • Paradox • Prophecy • Rift • Examples of adoptive muscle memory