Talk:Ability Learning/@comment-4867780-20120401001409

Sounds like a scientific version of power replication. I like it.

But there's a flaw in this. It comes from the Naruto Verse, in which all powers are actually techniques that can be learn by anyone if talented enough. And in most other Verse, powers are not techniques but just... powers. Something special that makes users fondamentally different, and can't just be learned like, say, mathematics.

At least, not without some sort of shapeshifting-like secondary power that allows you to "adapt" to your newfound knowledge (II'm thinking about Sylar from Heroes : he obviously had it, but it was never mentionned anyway ; and no one ever shouted "hey ! you can copy a power with just knowing how it works ! That's impossible !" XD).