The power to remember and recall experiences and events inhumanly well. Sub-power of Enhanced Condition. Lesser variation of Panmnesia.
Also Called
- Inhuman Eidetic Memory
- Memory Bound/Palace
- Photographic Memory
- Rapid Recollection
Capabilities
Users can remember great volumes of information, in greater detail and for much longer than the average human, they can read books, listen to song lyrics, encounter people or experience events and recall a vast deal of the details of their experience. In addition, it takes less effort to recall the information they encounter, and they can remember it for longer without having to strain. Their memory is also more resilient against Memory Manipulation.
Applications
- Adoptive Muscle Memory
- Audiographic Memory
- Enhanced Reading
- Encyclopedic Knowledge
- Knowledge Replication
- Numerical Precision
- Photographic Deduction
Associations
- Brain Augmentation
- Elephant Physiology
- Enhanced Condition
- Enhanced Intelligence
- Genetic Memory
- Memory Manipulation
- Panmnesia
- Parallel Processing
Limitations
- May be unable to displace/forget mistakes/memories.
- May not handle stress from certain retained information (i.e. truths).
- May be unable to replicate physical actions without training.
- Useless against Memory Destruction.
- Prone to headaches since brain power is needed.
- May be harmful or painful memory that could give them stress
- Dependency on the personality, may result in the user being fairly vindictive.
- Attempting to memorize too much results in brain damage, and potential fatality
- May be restricted to certain senses.
- May require conscious activation or certain triggers (i.e. mnemonics).
Known Users
- Ada Wallace (Glass Sword)
- Superman (DC Comics)
- Martian Manhunter (DC Comics)
- Miss Martian (DC Comics)
- Bane (DC Comics)
- Lex Luthor (DC Comics)
- Batman (DC Comics)
- Captain Comet (DC Comics)
- Barbara Gordon (DC Comics)
- Bart Allen (DC Comics)
- Taskmaster (Marvel Comics)
- Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic (Marvel Comics)
- Victor Mancha (Marvel)
- Sage (Marvel Comics)
- Echo (Marvel Comics)
- Captain America (Marvel)
- Samuel (Fairy Tail)
- Vinsmoke Reiju (One Piece)
- Ozymandias (Watchmen)
- Gibson Kafka (Birds of Prey)
- C-3PO (Star Wars)
- Charlene "Charlie" Andrews (Heroes)
- Sylar/Gabriel Gray (Heroes); formerly
- Solf J. Kimblee (Fullmetal Alchemist)
- Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)
- Shawn Spencer (Psych)
- Dr. Sam Beckett (Quantum Leap)
- Ingrid Third (Fillmore!)
- Brother Blood (Teen Titans)
- Olive Doyle (A.N.T. Farm)
- Mike Ross (Suits)
- Ella (The Heroes of Olympus)
- JJ Powell (No Ordinary Family)
- Lavi (D.Gray-Man)
- Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel)
- Max Guevara (Dark Angel)
- X5 Series supersoldiers (Dark Angel)
- Worick Arcangelo (GANGSTA.)
- Klaus Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
- Lily Montgomery (All My Children)
- Severus Snape (Harry Potter)
- Cardassians (Star Trek)
- Mackenzie Hartford (Power Rangers Operation Overdrive)
- Epsilon (Red vs. Blue)
- Kate Jones (Ripley's Bureau of Investigation)
- ShadowEmz (Super/Lette)
- Index (To Aru Majutsu no Index)
- Rei Ogami (Code: Breaker)
- Fi (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)
- Fiona Fox (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Sonia the Hedgehog (Sonic Underground)
- Michael Ancelet (The 4400)
- Garrick Ollivander (Harry Potter)
- Angels (Supernatural)
- Sharingan users (Naruto)
- Adam (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Rufus (Fairy Tail)
- Alex Mercer (Prototype)
- Kyle Trager (Kyle XY)
- Jessi (Kyle XY)
- Eddie Morra (Limitless)
- Carrie Wells (Unforgettable)
- Bennington 'Baby Bink' Cotwell Jr. (Baby's Day Out)
- Yabumi Juunichou (Medaka Box)
- Ashley Robbins (Another Code/Trace Memory)
- Jimmy Kudo/Conan Edogawa (Case Closed)
- Luke Smith (The Sarah Jane Adventures)
- RoboCop (RoboCop)
- Seven of Nine (Star Trek)
- Ben Skywalker (Star Wars)
- Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes)
- Brutha (Discworld)
- Chee (Animorphs)
- Fox Mulder (The X-Files)
- Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)
- Immortals (Highlander)
- Olivia Dunham (Fringe)
- Drells (Mass Effect)
- Salarians (Mass Effect)
- Skye (PAW Patrol)
- Jimmy Neutron (Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius)
- Frank Lapidus (Lost)
- Park Shi On (Good Doctor)
- Sheldon Cooper (Big Bang Theory)
- Ryker Kuroyami (Olympus Comics)
- Han Jee-Han (The Gamer)
- All vampires (The Vampire Chronicles)
- Misaki Tokura (Cardfight Vanguard)
- Patch (101 Dalmatians II:Patch's London Adventure)
- Alakazam (Pokemon)
- Sheldon Cooper (Big Bang Theory)
- The Doctor (Doctor Who)
- Kirie Sakurame (UQ Holder)
- Shiro (No Game No Life)
- Broly (Dragon Ball Z)
- Merry Nightmare (Yumekui Merry)
Known Objects
- Memorization Bread (Doraemon)
Gallery
Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel) possesses good memory when he actively tries.
JJ Powell (No Ordinary Family) claims to remember for approximately 6 hours, but managed to overcome its limits.
Max Guevara (Dark Angel), one of the X5s.
Rufus (Fairy Tail) using Memory Make
Luke Smith (The Sarah Jane Adventures)
Ashley Robbins (Another Code/Trace Memory) is able to recall events that occurred when she was an infant.
Sage (Marvel Comics)
Bart Allen (DC Comics)
Ben Tennyson (Ben 10) was able to memorize a complex series of magical runes after one glance.
Solf J. Kimblee revealed to have a photographic memory, as he never forgets a person's face, mostly the faces of his victims.
Fiona Fox (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
Patch (101 Dalmatians II:Patch's London Adventure) was capable of remembering all 72 episodes of his favourite show.
Taskmaster(Marvel) can memorize an opponent's attacks and replicate them perfectly.
Sheldon Cooper (Big Bang Theory) can remember his own birth
The Doctor (Doctor Who) can recall any moment or event of his 2,100 year life in explict detail.
Gibson Kafka (Birds of Prey) is a metahuman with perfect photographic memory. He can recall every taste, sight, sound and smell he has ever experienced (since before birth) and knows, to the second, the amount of time that has passed since he last saw someone.
Broly (Dragon Ball Z) was able to recall Goku's appearance and birth name, even though he hadn't seen Goku since they were infants.
Vinsmoke Reiju (One Piece) has a photographic memory since three years old.