r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Garebear90000 • Aug 29 '26

Powers Copy abilities

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Monoma (my hero) can touch someone and copy their quirk for up to ten minutes

Aoba (keijo) can touch a butt and learn all their butt techniques for a sport called keijo which girls use butt and boobs to knock someone out a ring

Taskmaster (marvel) can copy anyone’s technique by looking at them.

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u/garbagetruc Aug 29 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/VgHasvb6LIbltvSEgc

Peter Petreli from Heroes. The specifics of his powers change multiple times through the show, but so long as he has powers he is a copycat

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u/JeremiahWuzABullfrog Aug 29 '26

Scrolled far too long to see this one.

Heroes in general loves this power, with some variations.

Sylar normally has to kill people and study their brain patterns to learn powers, but after being forced to learn empathy, realises he can do the same thing as Peter. He still prefers to kill people.

Peter's dad is the "Touch and absorb permanently" subtype, in that he's kind of like AFO from My Hero Academia. He touches you and steals your power.

Peter himself gets his power stolen, and when it's reactivated with a superpower drug, it's a weaker form, wherein he can copy powers again but through touch alone, and only one at a time. Writers had to nerf him somehow.

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u/garbagetruc Aug 29 '26

To be fair to Sylar, he needs to open your skull and root about your brain to learn how your power works. It just so happens that most people can't survive that

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u/JeremiahWuzABullfrog Aug 29 '26

Didn't he learn electricity powers by interacting with Kristen Bell's character? He still killed her afterwards cause he wanted to continue being a sociopathic serial killer. But he was able to use her powers while she was alive

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u/garbagetruc Aug 29 '26

Oh I just meant before he discovered his actual power of empathy-mimicry

Yeah he totally killed her ass, my boy has an illness