List of abilities
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Evolved humans possess extraordinary abilities.
List of Confirmed Abilities
| Power | Possessed by | Absorbed by | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ability augmentation | Paulette Hawkins | ||
| The ability to alter other evolved human abilities | |||
| Acid secretion | Leonard Cushing | ||
| The ability to generate highly corrosive fluids | |||
| Adoptive muscle memory | Monica Dawson | ||
| The ability to replicate any physical action after seeing it performed | |||
| Alchemy | Bob Bishop | ||
| The ability to transform the composition of materials | |||
| Alejandro's ability | Alejandro Herrera | ||
| The ability to suppress and counteract his sister's poison emission | |||
| Appearance alteration | Connie Logan | ||
| The ability to change the skin, hair, and vocal cords of another person | |||
| Aura absorption | Linda Tavara | ||
| The ability to see auras and take the lives and powers of others | |||
| Bliss and horror | Guillame | ||
| The ability to bring about feelings of bliss and horror in others | |||
| Clairsentience | Bridget Bailey | ||
| The ability to perceive the history of an object by touching it | |||
| Clairvoyance | Molly Walker | ||
| The ability to see distant people and things | |||
| Cloning | Julien Dumont, Evan | ||
| The ability to vegetatively replicate oneself and produce identical clones | |||
| Constriction | The Constrictor | ||
| The ability to mimic the attributes of a constricting snake, including squeezing extra-tightly with one's body, numbing with one's touch and gender neutrality | |||
| Crumpling | Marcus | ||
| The ability to crumple and deform objects | |||
| Dehydration | Rollo Fusor's accomplice | ||
| The ability to remove the water contained in objects or people by force of will | |||
| Disintegration touch | Felicia Brooks | ||
| Felicia's name for her evolved ability | |||
| Dream manipulation | Sanjog Iyer | ||
| The ability to manipulate the dreams of others | |||
| Elasticity | Piper | ||
| The ability to to stretch, deform, expand, and contract one's body | |||
| Electrical absorption | Teenage patient, Benjamin Franklin | ||
| The ability to absorb and subsequently release electrical energy | |||
| Electromagnetism | Agent | Future Peter | |
| The ability to create electricity and manipulate electromagnetic fields | |||
| Electronic communication | Hana Gitelman, Richard Drucker | ||
| The ability to intercept, generate, and interpret electronic, digital, and radio transmissions with one's mind | |||
| Empathic mimicry | Peter Petrelli | ||
| The ability to duplicate the powers of other evolved humans within proximity and reproduce them at will when thinking about the original source of the power | |||
| Enhanced hearing | Dale Smither | Sylar | |
| The ability to hear any sound at any volume | |||
| Enhanced memory | Charlie Andrews, Matt Neuenberg | Sylar | |
| The ability to quickly absorb and accurately retain great amounts of information | |||
| Enhanced speed | Daphne Millbrook, Agent | Future Peter | |
| The ability to move at a higher rate than normal | |||
| Flight | Nathan Petrelli, West Rosen | Peter Petrelli, Future Sylar1 | |
| The ability to propel oneself through the air | |||
| Freezing | Unknown | Sylar | |
| The ability to reduce temperatures and freeze objects by force of will | |||
| Healing | Daniel Linderman | ||
| The ability to heal the wounds of others | |||
| Illusion | Candice Willmer | Future Sylar1 | |
| The ability to alter the perceptions of others | |||
| Induced radioactivity | Engineer2, Ted Sprague | Peter Petrelli, Sylar | |
| The ability to manipulate the movement of subatomic particles, thus generating and emitting toxic radiation | |||
| Intuitive aptitude | Sylar | ||
| The ability to analyze complex systems and intuitively understand how they work without special education or training | |||
| Invisibility | Claude Rains | Peter Petrelli | |
| The ability to not be seen | |||
| Levitation | Abu Aswan, Khufu and his kin | ||
| The ability to levitate and move extremely heavy objects | |||
| Lightning | Elle Bishop | Peter Petrelli | |
| The ability to create and direct electrical arcs | |||
| Luminescence | Howard Grigsby | ||
| The ability to emit light from one's body | |||
| Lung adaptability | Bianca Karina | ||
| The ability to adapt one's lungs to any environment | |||
| Magnetism | The German | ||
| The ability to manipulate ferrous objects and materials | |||
| Mediumship | Ida May Walker | Linda Tavara | |
| The ability to view the spirits of the deceased | |||
| Melting | Zane Taylor | Sylar | |
| The ability to melt solid materials | |||
| Mental manipulation | The Haitian | ||
| The ability to manipulate others' minds, causing them to lose memories or be prevented from using mental powers | |||
| Nerve gas emission | Manhattan target | ||
| The ability to emit nerve gas when sweating | |||
| Omnilingualism | Traveler | ||
| The ability to automatically understand all verbal and non-verbal communication | |||
| Persuasion | Eden McCain | ||
| The ability to force others to obey one's spoken commands (listen) | |||
| Phasing | D.L. Hawkins, Felipe Acerra | Future Sylar1, Peter Petrelli | |
| The ability to pass through solid objects at will | |||
| Plant growth | Au Co | ||
| The ability to accelerate plant growth | |||
| Plant manipulation | Brendan Lewis | ||
| The ability to mimic and create plants and other vegetation | |||
| Poison emission | Maya Herrera | ||
| The ability to harm or kill people in the immediate area by emitting a deadly poison | |||
| Precognition | Isaac Mendez, Byron Bevington | Peter Petrelli, Sylar | |
| The ability to predict future events | |||
| Pyrokinesis | Meredith Gordon, Maarten | Future Peter1 | |
| The ability to create and control fire using the power of the mind | |||
| Rapid cell regeneration | Claire Bennet, Adam Monroe | Peter Petrelli, Future Sylar1 | |
| The ability to heal wounds quickly without any scarring | |||
| Sound absorption | Agent | ||
| The ability to absorb and nullify sound waves | |||
| Sound manipulation | Echo DeMille | ||
| The ability to manipulate sound waves using one's voice | |||
| Space-time manipulation | Hiro Nakamura | Peter Petrelli | |
| The ability to alter the space-time continuum, including slowing down, speeding up, reversing, stopping, moving backwards and forwards through time, and moving instantaneously through space | |||
| Super strength | Niki Sanders, Jessica Sanders | Peter Petrelli | |
| The ability to exert greater than normal physical force | |||
| Technopathy | Micah Sanders | ||
| The ability to control and manipulate technology with the mind | |||
| Telekinesis | Brian Davis | Sylar, Peter Petrelli | |
| The ability to move objects with the mind | |||
| Telepathy | Matt Parkman, Maury Parkman | Peter Petrelli | |
| The ability to mentally control functions of the brain | |||
| Telescopic vision | Donna Dunlap | ||
| The ability to see clearly in darkness and magnify vision to various levels | |||
| Water mimicry | "Liquid man" | ||
| The ability to mimic and control water using the power of the mind | |||
List of Unconfirmed Abilities
| Potential Power3 | Person | Location | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal control | Markus Gaines | Dayton, OH | Assignment tracker map |
| Corrosion | Unknown convict | Lisbon, Portugal | Assignment tracker map |
| Deoxygenation | Middle school boy | Santa Cruz, CA | Five Years Gone |
| Dynamic camouflage | Genesis Files | ||
| Evolved human detection | Lukas Bahn | Washington, DC | Assignment tracker map |
| Electronic manipulation | Unknown | Pakistan or Afghanistan | Assignment tracker map |
| Gas mimicry | Zan Hahn | Beijing, China | Assignment tracker map |
| Hair manipulation | Paul Harding | Washington, DC | Assignment tracker map |
| Induced explosion | Darryl Blake | San Diego, CA | Assignment tracker map |
| Metallic sweat | Carmen Gonzalez | Leon, Mexico | Assignment tracker map |
| Nervous system manipulation | Unknown | Toronto, Canada | Assignment tracker map |
| Object displacement | Sebastian Shell | Beijing, China | Assignment tracker map |
| Reality distortion | "The Prankster" | Waterbury, CT | Assignment tracker map |
| Seismic blast | Bart Scott | Seattle, WA | Assignment tracker map |
| Shadow mimicry | Unknown male 1 | Reno, NV | Assignment tracker map |
| Shape shifting | Unknown | Lima, Peru | Assignment tracker map |
| Size alteration | Robert Ferguson | Alexandria, LA | Assignment tracker map |
| Snake mimicry | "Snake man" | Everglades National Park | Assignment tracker map |
| Summoning | Debra Harding | Boise, ID | Assignment tracker map |
| Teleportation | Tracy Chobham Manuel Garcia | Frostburg, MD Levittown, NY | Interactive map Faces, Part 1 |
| Temperature manipulation | Ian Verro | Denver, Colorado | Assignment tracker map |
| Transportation | Journal male 2 Journal female 1 | Chilpancingo, Mexico Palu, Indonesia | Chandra's journal |
| Weather control | "The Croatian" Albert Rossling | Croatia San Diego, CA | Faces, Part 1 Assignment tracker map |
1These abilities were manifested in the future timeline shown in the episode Five Years Gone.
2This ability was manifested by Amid Halebi aka The Engineer, a character who appeared only in the 72-minute extended unaired pilot that was shown at Comic-Con 2006 in San Diego, and is listed here for documentation.
3These abilities have been referenced in either an episode, graphic novel or Heroes Evolutions, but have not been detailed enough to confirm their exact nature and identification; therefore they are unconfirmed and listed here for documentation.
See Also
- For information on the inheritance of abilities, see ability heredity.
- For Sylar's ability to steal other evolved humans' abilities, see ability theft.
- For a comparison of Isaac's paintings with their realizations, see prophecy.
Fan Theories
Please refer to the following link for fan-created theories and other speculation.

