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Examples of empathic mimicry

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1 Season One
2 Season Two
3 Season Three

Empathic mimicry is the ability to duplicate the powers of other evolved humans. A full list of examples of the power in action follows.

Season One

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Peter mimics flight...	...later Nathan attempts to save Peter, but drops him. Peter then flies in order to save himself. (Genesis)	Peter draws a prophetic sketch of himself flying near Nathan...	...and levitates in Nathan's presence...
...and may have mimicked Future Hiro's power to freeze time...	...as well as mimicing precognition. (Don't Look Back)	Peter prophetically completes Isaac's unfinished painting. (Hiros)	Peter may be mimicking telekinesis...
...and after a normally devastating fall...	...Peter mimics Claire's healing power. (Homecoming)	Peter mimics Matt's telepathy and a disturbing feedback loop results. (Fallout)	In a sickbed vision, Peter flies. (Super-Heroics)
Peter mimics Claude's invisibility...	...and as Claude walks away, Peter reappears. (Godsend)	After Claude pushes him from Charles Deveaux's rooftop, Peter manages to recall Claire's regeneration...	...then afterward accesses several powers in rapid succession: Claude's invisibility...
...Matt's telepathy...	...and Isaac's precognition. (Distractions)	On the Deveaux rooftop, Peter mimics telekinesis...	...slows down then freezes time...
...uses flight to escape...	...and carries Claude to safety. (Unexpected)	When fighting Isaac, Peter uses telekinesis...	...and invisibility. (Unexpected)
Peter uses a smörgåsbord of powers to avoid Sylar's rampage, including...	...telekinesis...	...invisibility...	...and, later, regeneration to heal from the attack. (.07%)
Peter uses precognition to work on some prophetic art. (The Hard Part)	In the future, Peter pulls a glass towards him...	...then appears to Niki.	Watch as Peter demonstrates his mastery of simultaneous power usage.
Appearing to save Future Hiro and Ando...	...he telekinetically throws a guard...	...stops time...	...then teleports to a safer place...
...and uses telekinesis to close a giant door.	To go against ice, Peter recalls fire. (Five Years Gone)	Peter and Hiro stop time together to disable some guards...	...and radioactively break down a prison door. (Walls, Part 1)
Immediately after being in Ted's vicinity, Peter's hands begin to glow...	...but he is able to reign in his new power. (Landslide)	Peter uses a brand new power to electrocute an agent...	...creates fire to ward off a fast agent...
...and then chases after her. (Walls, Part 2)	Sylar's thoughts on power are loud and clear to Peter...	...so Peter and Claire disappear from the FBI.(Landslide)	Peter hears Claire's thoughts...
...and Nathan's thoughts...	...then uses invisibility to escape Nathan...	...and becomes visible again as he arrives at a deserted street.	Peter taps into Ted's power and worries that he'll lose control...
...and blacks out in the street.	Peter absorbs Niki's power and clobbers Sylar.	Peter is unable to control Ted's power, but...	...Nathan comes to save the day by flying a glowing Peter...
...before he explodes...	...in a bright light in the sky. (How to Stop an Exploding Man)

Season Two

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In a cargo container in Cork, Ireland, Peter mimics an ability to fend off some thugs. (Four Months Later...)	Peter mimics rapid cell regeneration after receiving a beating from Tuko...	...then fends off an intruder...	...phases through some ropes binding him...
...until he's free from them. (Lizards)	Peter mimics telepathy and hears Will's thoughts...	...and later during a heist, Peter uses telekinesis on armored truck...	...and at the Wandering Rocks, Peter mimics telekinesis to pin Will against the wall...
...and expels two bullets from his body. (Kindred)	Peter calls lightning on a beach after saying Caitlin's name...	...and later accesses telepathy, and hears Caitlin's thoughts. (Petrified Lightning)	Peter sees an image on a blank canvas...
...enters a precognitive trance...	...and paints a scene in Montreal. (Fight or Flight)	Peter inadvertently sends himself and Caitlin to New York in the future. (The Line)	Peter mimics telepathy...
...and recovers his lost memories of his mother.	Peter inadvertently returns to the past, leaving Caitlin in the future...	...and after returning, unleashes a bolt of lightning at Adam Monroe. (Out of Time)	Peter uses regeneration...
...to heal his memories of Nathan back.	Peter causes radiation burns on Nathan...	...as he glows brighter...	...and explodes in the sky.
After Peter explodes, he mimics flight to catch Nathan. (Four Months Ago...)	Peter uses invisibility to remain unseen...	...then mimics phasing...	...and he walks through a wall...
...and escapes the Company's prison with Adam. (Four Months Ago...)	Peter survives a shotgun blast by Victoria Pratt...	...afterward telepathically discovering the location of Strain 138...	...and is immune to Hiro's time freeze...
...and unleashes a ball of lightning to protect Adam. (Truth & Consequences)	Peter mimics telekinesis to stop Hiro's sword in mid-air...	...and uses lightning to shock Hiro.	Peter knocks a guard out...
...shocks a fuse box...	...and stops the alarms.	Peter uses telekinesis...	...to break into the vault...
...then pins Hiro to the wall...	...projects thoughts at Matt...	...then sends Matt flying backwards.	Peter catches the falling vial of the virus...
...then destroys it. (Powerless)

Season Three

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Future Peter stops time.	Peter is disguised...	...then shows his true self.	Future Peter blocks Matt from reading his mind. (The Second Coming)
Future Peter rescues Claire...	...and teleports after speaking to her.	Future Peter teleports out of Nathan's hospital room. (The Butterfly Effect)	Future Peter stops time...
...finds Jesse's body...	...removes Peter from it...	...then teleports Peter away. (One of Us, One of Them)	Peter arms himself against Sylar with flames...
...then reads his mind.	Peter understands what is wrong with a watch, then fixes it.	Peter reads his brother's thoughts...	...then chokes and pins his brother...
...then tries to see into Nathan's mind.	Peter time travels away from the future...	...and into Sylar's Level 5 cell. (I Am Become Death)	Peter pushes Sylar up against a wall...
...telekinetically stops Angela in her tracks...	...then begins to open Angela's head, to get information. (Angels and Monsters)	Peter reads Angela's mind...	...and sees the Pinehearst logo. (Dying of the Light)
Peter flies down the halls of Primatech Research with Sylar in tow...	...then shoots lightning at Sylar.	Peter comes out of his invisibility...	...and wields lightning when he meets Arthur again. (Dying of the Light)