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Tissue Regeneration

Tissue Regeneration

Tissue regeneration or 'healing factor' is a term used to describe a character's ability to heal bodily injuries or illness at a greatly enhanced rate. Claire Benet can spontaneously regenerate any tissue in her body, allowing her to recover from supeficial and even fatal wounds in seconds.

This ability cannot, however, move displaced parts of the body back into the correct location. Whilst mimicking Claire's power, Peter Petrelli had to manually rotate his broken foot to the correct orientation before it would heal. And healing will not occur if a foreign object obstructs the wound.

Claire's and Peter's reactions suggest that they experience little to no pain when injuries occur. It is simply the shock or impact of injuries that is felt - something that they very quickly recover from as well. Any football club in the world would hire either of them in a second.

53 Comments
1. roystonpryor - Mar 28 10:01pm
"Any football club in the world would hire either of them in a second." Unfortunately, so would the armed forces.

any black ops "super soldier" program would jump at the chance to have a warrior who is almost indestructable. A little brainwashing here, some body armour there, and you have someone who almost nothing can stop.
2. akromasbf - Mar 28 10:05pm
they feel pain: in one of the episodes, claire pulled some cupcakes out of the oven, and reacted to the burn... they healed shortly thereafter, but she was obviously in pain... its more likely that she just wills herself not to feel it, since she knows its just going to heal right after...
3. lanie_alysha09 - Mar 28 10:31pm
so hows the world going to feel after all this takes place u know dogs are in pain and now do u think they will ever die how long are they going to live for. i think the worlds going to see alot of wonderful gifts happening at home as well
4. aresues - Mar 29 03:42pm
Claire feels pain, but just not as much as a normal person. It's probably like she feels pain like when you have a local anasthetic: the pain is there, but it's not all that overwhelming.
5. aresues - Mar 29 03:43pm
Claire feels pain, but just not as much as a normal person. It's probably like she feels pain like when you have a local anasthetic: the pain is there, but it's not all that overwhelming.
6. evanpingu - Apr 01 11:33pm
I'm not sure about how much pain she feels. Sometimes (well, more rather than not) she winces, but other times she keeps a straight face and just cricks everything back into position.
7. yoeyyoyo - Apr 03 12:17pm
hey, you guys hear about that heroes/zeroes thing...

http://au.video.yahoo.com/video /play?vid=374318

hilarious.
8. kiwiroos - Apr 04 02:52pm
hey, there i think claire is my favourite character and that guy that can stop time i think claire is cool because she can't get hurt and that's what you call girl power. i like the guy who can stop time because i want to stop time so i can steal stuff. i think you should keep the program for years. see ya
9. green_tea_no_sugar - Apr 04 03:43pm
regeneration is one thing. when she got kill ( a piece of timber in her head) she is very Dead. And when the timber is out regeneration take place and she is alive again? i dont get this part.
10. desertfox9_9 - Apr 04 10:07pm
she can only regenerate if there is nothing in the way
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