Talk:Evolving Absorbing Replication/@comment-4867780-20161001104053/@comment-26322734-20161001193256

Well no. To my understanding, for regular AR you have to absorb other things to properly upgrade what you had already previously absorbed or replicated (for example, if you'd absorbed Thor's hammer, you'd have to absorb another thing before you're able to turn it into something else).

With this power, that little issue is nonexistent. If you'd absorbed Thor's hammer, you could internally upgrade it by itself, turning it into something better, augmenting its abilities, or retrogressively changing it without having to absorb anything else. With this power, you could change a jet engine into a rocket fuel engine without needing the necessary data to do so, but simply by upgrading it internally.

As an analogy, I'd probably say this power is like how Cyborg can absorb technology, and how the technological parts of his body are constantly upgrading by themselves, rather than him having to absorb better technology to properly upgrade his parts.