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Evolved humans possess extraordinary abilities.

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Confirmed: Acid secretion • Adoptive muscle memory • Alchemy • Alejandro's ability • Appearance alteration • Aura absorption • Bliss and horror • Clairsentience • Clairvoyance • Cloning • Crumpling • Dehydration • Disintegration touch • Dream manipulation • Elasticity • Electrical absorption • Electromagnetism • Electronic communication • Empathic mimicry • Enhanced hearing • Enhanced memory • Enhanced speed • Flight • Freezing • Healing • Illusion • Induced radioactivity • Intuitive aptitude • Invisibility • Levitation • Lightning • Luminescence • Lung adaptation • Magnetism • Mediumship • Melting • Mental manipulation • Nerve gas emission • Omnilingualism • Persuasion • Phasing • Plant growth • Poison emission • Precognition • Pyrokinesis • Rapid cell regeneration • Space/time manipulation • Super strength • Technopathy • Telekinesis • Telepathy • Telescopic vision • Water mimicry
Unconfirmed: Deoxygenation • Dynamic camouflage • Teleportation • Transportation • Weather control

List of Confirmed Abilities

Power	Possessed by	Absorbed by

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
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


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
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	Agent	Future Peter
The ability to move at a higher rate than normal


Flight	Nathan Petrelli, West Rosen	Peter Petrelli, Future Sylar ¹
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 Sylar ¹
The ability to alter the perceptions of others


Induced radioactivity	Engineer ², 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 adaptation	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 Sylar ¹, Peter Petrelli
The ability to pass through solid objects at will


Plant growth	Au Co
The ability to accelerate plant growth


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 Peter ¹
The ability to create and control fire using the power of the mind


Rapid cell regeneration	Claire Bennet, Adam Monroe	Peter Petrelli, Future Sylar ¹
The ability to heal wounds quickly without any scarring


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
Deoxygenation	Middle school boy	Santa Cruz, CA	Five Years Gone
Dynamic camouflage			Genesis Files
Teleportation	Tracy Chobham Levittown target	Frostburg, MD Levittown, NY	Interactive map Faces, Part 1
Transportation	Journal male 2 Journal female 1	Chilpancingo, Mexico Palu, Indonesia	Chandra's journal
Weather control	"The Croatian"		Faces, Part 1

¹These powers were manifested in the future timeline shown in the episode Five Years Gone.

²This power 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 powers 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.