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Evolved humans, as well as those who have taken a genetic modification serum, possess extraordinary abilities.

List of Confirmed Abilities

	Power	Possessed by	Absorbed by
	Ability supercharging	Paulette Hawkins, Ando Masahashi
	The ability to supercharge other evolved human abilities
	Accelerated probability	Santiago
	The ability to predict the probability of a certain event correctly and accelerate one's self to achieve those predictions
	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	Sylar
	The ability to change the molecular composition of any material to gold
	Alejandro's ability	Alejandro Herrera
	The ability to absorb and counter the effects of Maya's ability
	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
	Body insertion	Unknown	Future Peter2
	The ability to insert a person into someone else's body
	Chlorine gas exudation	Tina Ramierez
	The ability to exhale chlorine gas instead of carbon dioxide
	Clairsentience	Bridget Bailey	Sylar
	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
	David's ability	David Sullivan
	The ability to growl and charge at others viciously
	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
	Electric manipulation	Agent, Elle Bishop	Future Peter1, Peter Petrelli (lost), Arthur Petrelli, Sylar
	The ability to create and direct electrical arcs
	Electrical absorption	Teenage patient, Benjamin Franklin
	The ability to absorb and subsequently release electrical energy
	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 (lost)	Arthur 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 (lost)
	The ability to hear sounds beyond normal limits
	Enhanced memory	Charlie Andrews, Matt Neuenberg	Sylar (lost)
	The ability to quickly absorb and accurately retain great amounts of information
	Enhanced strength	Niki Sanders, Knox, Michael Fitzgerald, Scott	Peter Petrelli (lost)
	The ability to exert greater than normal physical force
	Flight	Nathan Petrelli, West Rosen	Peter Petrelli, Future Sylar1
	The ability to propel oneself through the air
	Forcefield projection	Abigail
	The ability to create and manipulate forcefields
	Freezing	James Walker, Tracy Strauss	Sylar (lost)
	The ability to reduce temperatures and freeze objects by force of will
	Future terrorist's ability	Future terrorist
	The ability to shoot a concentrated flow of green energy or liquid from the hand
	Gravitational manipulation	Stephen Canfield
	The ability to create gravitational vacuums
	Healing	Daniel Linderman, Ishi Nakamura
	The ability to heal the wounds of others
	Illusion	Candice Willmer	Future Sylar1, Future Peter2
	The ability to alter the perceptions of others
	Impenetrable skin	Baron Samedi
	The ability of one's skin to not be penetrated by anything
	Induced radioactivity	Ted Sprague	Peter Petrelli (lost), Sylar (lost), Future Gabriel2
	The ability to manipulate the movement of subatomic particles, thus generating and emitting toxic radiation
	Intuitive aptitude	Sylar	Peter Petrelli (lost)
	The ability to analyze complex systems and intuitively understand how they work without special education or training
	Invisibility	Claude Rains	Peter Petrelli (lost)
	The ability to not be seen
	Laser emission	Michael
	The ability to generate a beam of coherent light
	Levitation	Abu Aswan, Khufu and his kin
	The ability to levitate and move extremely heavy objects
	Lie detection	Sue Landers	Sylar
	The ability to detect when others lie
	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, Magnetism terrorist
	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 (lost)
	The ability to melt solid materials
	Mental manipulation	The Haitian	Arthur Petrelli
	The ability to manipulate others' minds, causing them to lose memories or be prevented from using mental powers
	Metal mimicry	Danny Pine
	The ability to transmute one's own body into metal
	Mohinder's ability	Mohinder Suresh
	The ability to possess enhanced human senses, instinct, and strength
	Nerve gas emission	Manhattan target
	The ability to emit nerve gas when sweating
	Neurocognitive deficit	Anna
	The ability to shut down the upper brain functions of surrounding individuals
	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
	Phasing	D.L. Hawkins, Samir Mellouk	Future Sylar1, Peter Petrelli (lost)
	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 (lost)	Arthur Petrelli
	The ability to harm or kill people in the immediate area by emitting a deadly poison
	Power absorption	Arthur Petrelli
	The ability to steal another's ability, rendering them powerless
	Precognition	Isaac Mendez, Usutu	Peter Petrelli (lost), Sylar (lost), Future Gabriel2, Arthur Petrelli
	The ability to accurately predict future events through paintings
	Precognitive dreaming	Angela Petrelli	Peter Petrelli (lost)
	The ability to see the future through dreams
	Primal rage	Ricardo Silva
	The ability to induce an uncontrollable rage in others
	Puppet master	Eric Doyle
	The ability to control a person's physical actions
	Pyrokinesis	Meredith Gordon, Maarten, Flint Gordon, Jr., Iris	Future Peter1, Peter Petrelli (lost)
	The ability to create and control fire using the power of the mind
	Rapid cell regeneration	Claire Bennet, Adam Monroe	Peter Petrelli (lost), Sylar, Arthur Petrelli
	The ability to heal wounds quickly without any scarring
	Sound absorption	Agent
	The ability to absorb and nullify sound waves
	Sound manipulation	Echo DeMille, Jesse Murphy	Sylar
	The ability to manipulate sound waves using one's voice
	Space-time manipulation	Hiro Nakamura (lost)	Peter Petrelli (lost), Arthur 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
	Spike protrusion	Perrin Crocker
	The ability to create spikes that protrude from one's body
	Super speed	Agent, Daphne Millbrook	Future Peter1, Peter Petrelli (lost)
	The ability to move at a higher rate than normal
	Technopathy	Micah Sanders
	The ability to control and manipulate technology with the mind
	Telekinesis	Brian Davis	Sylar, Peter Petrelli (lost), Arthur Petrelli
	The ability to move objects with the mind
	Telepathy	Matt Parkman, Maury Parkman	Peter Petrelli (lost), Arthur Petrelli
	The ability to mentally control functions of the brain
	Teleportation	Manuel Garcia, Rachel Mills
	The ability to instantly move between two locations
	Telescopic vision	Donna Dunlap
	The ability to see clearly in darkness and magnify vision to various levels
	Trevor's ability	Trevor Zeitlan	Sylar (lost)
	The ability to shatter objects without physical contact
	Water mimicry	"Liquid man", Elisa
	The ability to mimic water

List of Unconfirmed Abilities

Shown Only in Deleted Scenes

Notes

1. These abilities were manifested in the "explosion future."

2. These abilities were manifested in the "exposed future."

3. These 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.