Instant Learning

Instant Learning
Son Goku (Dragon Ball Series) learned most of his techniques, such as the Kamehameha Wave, after seeing them performed by others only once.
Power/Ability to:	Gather and understand any knowledge instantly.

The ability to gather, understand and assimilate any knowledge instantly. Advanced variation of Intuitive Aptitude.

Also Called

• Clarity
• Instant Comprehension/Understanding
• Instantaneous Learning/Comprehension/Understanding

Capabilities

The user can gather and assimilate any kind of knowledge and understand it fully and instantaneously, this can happen in two ways:

Passively: when the user reads, sees or hears any concept they will understand it completely, whether it is natural or supernatural. If the user comes into contact with any piece of “information” that is wrong, they intuitively know this and can discern what is correct and what is wrong.

Actively: when the user wants information/knowledge they acquire it instantly and use it perfectly, e.g. the user can gain the skills and knowledge of a doctor to heal someone or gain the experience and skills of a master martial artist for fighting.

Applications

• Ability Learning
  • Ability Mastering
• Accelerated Development
• Action Replication
• Adoptive Muscle Memory
• Answer Intuition
• Artistic Replication
• Detail Intuition
• Enhanced Ability Learning
• Enhanced Calculation
• Enhanced/Supernatural Combat
• Enhanced/Supernatural Intelligence
• Enhanced/Supernatural Memory
• Enhanced Reading
• Enhanced/Supernatural Wisdom
• Enhanced/Supernatural Wits
• Epiphany Inducement
• Extrasensory Perception
• Flawless Coordination
• Knowledge Replication
• Instructive Muscle Memory
• Intuitive Perception
• Intuitive Precognition
• Intuitive Replication
• Reality Perception
• Skill Adaptation
• Skill Replication
• Superior Mimicry

Variations

• Adaptive Learning
• Psychocompetence

Associations

• Brain Augmentation
• Consumptive Learning
• Enhanced Instincts/Hyper Instincts
• Intuitive Aptitude
• Knowledge Manipulation
• Magic
• Meta-Learning
• Nigh Omniscience
• Psionics
• Science Manipulation

Known Users

See Also: Instant Expert.

Anime/Manga

• Rocco (Another World Reincarnation)
• Yujiro Hanma (Baki the Grappler)
• Kazuo Kiriyama (Battle Royale)
• Dears (DearS)
• Son Goku (Dragon Ball Series)
• Tenshinhan (Dragon Ball Series)
• Chiaotzu (Dragon Ball Z)
• Majin Buu (Dragon Ball Z)
• Gotenks (Dragon Ball Z)
• Kid Buu (Dragon Ball Z)
• Twenty-Fifth Baam (Tower of God)
• Agni (Kubera); via Sword of Hellfire (limited only to fire techniques)
• Pillar Men (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part II Battle Tendency)
• Santana (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part II Battle Tendency)
• Leo Regulus (Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas)
• Users of Hokuto Shin Ken (Fist of the North Star/Fist of the Blue Sky)
  • Kenshiro Kasumi
  • Kenshiro
  • Raoh
  • Toki
• Kurokami Medaka (Medaka Box)
• Midora (Toriko); via Mirror Neurons.
• Garo/Garou (One Punch Man)
• Koyori (Hand Shakers)
• Touya Mochizuki (In Another World With My Smartphone)
• Rando (Yu Yu Hakusho)
• Answer Talker Users (Zatch Bell!)

Literature

• Savant Vega (Skulduggery Pleasant)

Cartoons/Comics

• Roger (American Dad); via probing
• Kiyi (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
• Barry Allen/The Flash (DC Comics); temporarily via super speed
• Captain Comet (DC Comics)
• Kryptonians (DC Comics); via yellow sun radiation
• Teth-Adam/Black Adam (DC Comics)
• Oliver Grayson (Image Comics)
• Thraxans (Image Comics)
• Rob/American Rabbit (The Adventures of the American Rabbit)
• Aric of Dacia (Valiant Entertainment Comics); via X-O Manowar Armor
• Ozymandias (Watchmen)
• Po (Kung Fu Panda)

Live Television/Movies

• Adomopathic Alphas (Alphas)
  • Kat (Alphas)
• Chuck Bartowski (Chuck); via the Intersect.
• Jefferson Reed (Meteor Man)

Video Games

• Rin Hazuki (Blazblue)
• Honoka (Dead or Alive 5: Last Round)
• Raidou (Dead or Alive)
• Mew (Pokémon)
• Blue Magician (Final Fantasy)
• Sakura Kasugano (Street Fighter)
• Watatsuki no Yoirhime("Touhou project")

Others

• Etevaldo (Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum)

Gallery

Kiyi (Avatar: The Last Airbender) was able to learn Firebending after witnessing Zuko's techniques and emulating them.

Yujiro Hanma (Baki series) can learn fighting technique at the first glance.

Kazuo Kiriyama (Battle Royale) can instantly learn and master something due to his brain damage erasing all emotions, leading him to the projected winner of the program, barring unforeseen circumstances.

Teth-Adam/Black Adam (DC's New 52)

Honoka (Dead or Alive 5: Last Round) can learn any fighting technique she sees, a power she has adapted into her own personal fighting style, Honoka Fu.

Majin Buu (Dragon Ball Z) learned how to use the Kamehameha Wave after seeing Goku perform it.

Practitoners of Hokuto Shin Ken/Big Dipper God Fist (Fist of the North Star) can instantly learn and mimic the techniques of martial artists just by witnessing them.

Born from prehistoric era, the Pillar Men (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part II Battle Tendency) instantly learn and comprehend anything, as shown when they woke in the modern era.

Sakura (Street Fighter) learned and copied instantly all of Ryu and Ken's techniques after seeing them once, including learning and mastering the real Hadoken after seeing Dan's fake one.

Aric of Dacia/XO-Manowar (Valiant Entertainment)

Rando (Yu Yu Hakusho) learned how to use the Spirit Gun after seeing Yusuke Urameshi perform it once.