Belief induction

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Belief induction
Held by:	Alethea Thorn
Ability to:	Induce belief in others

Belief induction is the ability to manipulate others by making them believe in something.

Contents 1 Characters 2 Limits 3 Examples 4 See Also

Characters

• Alethea Thorn has this ability. (Faction Zero)

Limits

Alethea can manipulate people so they do her bidding by making the believe anything she wishes. Her targets must be able to hear her, so that blocking one's hearing can block the effects of her ability.

Examples

• Alethea uses her ability on Vic, telling him it is a life or death sitution that she find Claire, causing him to panic. (Chapter 2 of Faction Zero)
• Alethea also tells Vic he is sick and should leave, prompting him to do so. (Chapter 2 of Faction Zero)
• Alethea uses her ability on Claire to make her hand over her car and house keys, but Hiro and Ando snap Claire out of it. (Chapter 2 of Faction Zero)

See Also

• For the similar ability to manipulate another with vocal commands, see persuasion.
• For the similar ability to push fellings and sensations in another's mind, see telepathy.

Evolved Human Abilities edit
Abilities	Ability absorption • Ability replication • Activation and deactivation • Adoptive muscle memory • Alchemy • Alejandro's ability • Body insertion • Clairsentience • Clairvoyance • Cloaking • Cloning • Disintegration • Dream manipulation • Electric manipulation • Electronic communication • Empathic mimicry • Empathy • Enhanced hearing • Enhanced memory • Enhanced strength • Enhanced synesthesia • Fire breathing • Flight • Freezing • Gravitational manipulation • Healing • Healing touch • Heat generation • Illusion • Impenetrable skin • Induced radioactivity • Intuitive aptitude • Invisibility • Lie detection • Magnetism • Melting • Memory manipulation • Mental manipulation • Metal mimicry • Microwave emission • Mohinder's ability • Persuasion • Phasing • Plant growth • Poison emission • Precognition • Precognitive dreaming • Puppet master • Pyrokinesis • Rapid cell regeneration • Sedation • Seismic burst • Shape shifting • Shattering • Sound manipulation • Space-time manipulation • Spontaneous combustion • Super speed • Supercharging • Technopathy • Telekinesis • Telepathy • Terrakinesis • Underwater breathing • Weather control
Evolutions Abilities	Accelerated probability • Acidic blood • Age transferal • Animal control • Belief induction • Carbon isolation and formation • Constriction • Danger sensing • David's ability • Dimension hopping • Dimensional storage • Empathic manipulation • Enhanced teleporting • Extraskeletal manipulation • Health optimizing • Inflammation • Light absorption • Nerve manipulation • Non-biological duplication • Phoenix mimicry • Primal rage • Shifting • Size alteration • Teleportation • Temporal rewind • Water generation • Water mimicry
Graphic Novel Abilities	Ability augmentation • Acid secretion • Age shifting • Appearance alteration • Aura absorption • Bliss and horror • Bone spike protrusion • Chlorine gas exudation • Crumpling • Dehydration • Disintegration touch • Elasticity • Electrical absorption • Energy absorption, transference, and redirection • Forcefields • Future terrorist's ability • Gold mimicry • Granulation • Green energy blast • Imprinting • Laser emission • Levitation • Luminescence • Lung adaptation • Mass manipulation • Mediumship • Nerve gas emission • Neurocognitive deficit • Oil secretion • Omnilingualism • Plant manipulation • Sound absorption • Spider mimicry • Telescopic vision • Wall crawling
See Also: Ability development • Ability extension • Ability heredity • Ability immunity • Ability loss • Ability theft • Brain examination • Brain penetration • Examples of simultaneous ability use • Eye alteration • List of abilities • List of abilities with multiple users • Paradox • Prophecy • Rift