Intuitive Aptitude

Intuitive Aptitude
Sylar (Heroes) recognizes a tiny defect in a watch.
Power/Ability to:	Instantly understand the workings of anything no matter how simple or complex.

"Sometimes in life you have to feel your way through a situation!"

― Setzer Gabbiani (Final Fantasy VI)

The power to instantly learn and understand the complexity and exactness of organisms, objects, etc. without the need of long-term or special education.

Also Called

• Hyper Intuition
• Innate Capability
• Instinctive Aptitude
• Intuitive Intellect/Intelligence/Psychometry
• Psychic Aptitude
• Spontaneous Learning
• Unnatural/Supernatural Talent

Capabilities

The user can instantly learn and understand the workings and mechanics of anything, regardless of how simple or complex. They can comprehend the complexity and exactness of events, organisms, objects, subjects, fields, powers, etc. without the need of long-term or special education, or explanation.

Intuition, also called Discernment or Instinct, is the ability to "just know" specific information about an object, subject, or occurrence, including sensing how others will react to something that the user does or when something is about to happen. This ability is innate and cannot be turned off. A faculty of this ability allows the user to also (or instead) intuit spiritual truths and principles (sensing the presence of evil/danger/people that dislike the user, a feeling that one should or shouldn’t go somewhere, or the right thing to do in a situation); this faculty is called Gnosis.

Applications

• Adoptive/Instructive Muscle Memory

Techniques

• Adaptive Learning
• Intuitive Absorption
• Intuitive Replication

Variations

• Ability Intuition - knowledge of abilities and how they work. Also allows user to immediately & perfectly assess others abilities.
• Action Intuition - possess innate knowledge about how to act at times.
• Anatomical Intuition aka Bodily Intuition - knowledge of the name, appearance, location and function of every part in the body. This ability can be used to detect the physical limits and weaknesses of every body part/body system of any living creatures. (human, animal, plant, alien).
• Archeology Intuition - knowledge of archeology.
• Astronaut Intuition - to possess knowledge and experience in interstellar explorations.
• Carpentry Intuition - knowledge of carpentry/construction work.
• Chemical Intuition - ability to have innate knowledge of all types and forms of chemicals and chemistry.
• Craft Improvisation - ability to improvise in any craft or skill.
• Efficacy Intuition - knowledge of how to make the best use of oneself or one's abilities.
• Escape Intuition aka Situational/Danger Escape Intuition, Evasion Intuition or Situational/Danger Evasion Intuition - ability to intuit how to avoid danger, allow one to perceive what part of an area is least dangerous, and how to get there with the least harm.
• Fighting Instinct - ability to intuitively/instinctively handle any combat situation by any means.
• Firefighting Intuition - knowledge in firefighting protocol.
• Geometry Intuition - ability to intuitively/instinctively understand anything about geometry.
• Intuitive Perception - analyze and instantly comprehend anything perceived.
• Limit Intuition - possess innate knowledge about the limits of anything.
• Love Intuition -possess innate knowledge about love and romance
• Magic Intuition - possess intuitively/instantly understanding of magic knowing intuitively/instantly how to perform magic and spells.
• Mathematical Intuition - understand math, logic, and deduction/inductive reasoning. Can easily do all calculations in head.
• Mechanical Intuition - understanding of mechanics and electronics, user can observe random scattered "junk" and subconsciously/effortlessly create detailed schematics (in their head) then create an complex/effective creation or device using "junk".
• Medical Intuition - knowledge/intuition of the healing properties of subjects in one's environment. Allows one to come up with treatments.
• Military Intuition - knowledge of military policies, tactics, and procedures.
• Movement Intuition - knowledge of how to use or make the best of one's or others' movement capabilities.
• Musical Intuition - immediate understanding and use any and all instruments, and musical notes with the proficiency of a master. With this ability one only needs to touch an instrument before they instantly become proficient in it. Also gives the user perfect pitch hearing.
• Physics Intuition - comprehend the branch of science concerned with the nature and properties of matter and energy. User can discern the subject matter which includes mechanics, heat, light and other radiation, sound, electricity, magnetism, and the structure of atoms.
• Piracy Intuition - knowledge of piracy, smuggling goods, and plundering ships successfully.
• Police Intuition - knowledge of police procedure and law enforcement.
• Predator Instinct - possesses instincts innate to a predatory creature, one with this ability can discern numerous factors of a situation that make them a master of pursuit and capture. This includes what move a foe will make, where it is headed (if the user is in the foe’s proximity, or knows the foe fairly well), as well as how to effectively cause a foe to play right into one’s hands in combat/pursuit.
• Pressure Point Intuition - pinpoint the pressure point in a person and act accordingly of what the pressure point does and suspends the person.
• Prey Instinct - instincts innate to a prey creature. One with this ability can discern numerous factors of a situation that make them a master of evasion. This includes how much of a threat a foe poses (what move he will make, where he is going, and if these things relate to bringing harm to the user), as well as how to hide without giving away one’s presence, and how to preserve energy when running.
• Reaction Intuition - knowledge/intuition about how to react in situations.
• Rhythm Intuition - knowledge/intuition of the rhythm and fluctuation of the soundwaves.
• Riddle Intuition - knowledge/intuition of riddles, enigmas and puzzles.
• Science Intuition - have intuitive knowledge and skill in all forms and levels of science, technology, engineering,and programming.
• Seduction Intuition - intuitive seductive and sexual skills, user is be able to seduce anyone, and always provide immense sexual pleasure to anyone including oneself.
• Sickness Intuition - to innately and subconsciously know as well as interpret different kinds of diseases and what effects that they have on their recipient, including how best to utilize them for various purposes.
• Social Intuition aka Common Touch - intuitively determine how to interact with subjects. One with this ability could tell exactly what to say to interact with certain people, or tell the rank of a person within a group. The user also gains a great voice, eloquence, and charisma.
• Survival Intuition - Intuition know all survival skills for all types of environments and being able to work effortlessly in those environments.
• Weapon Proficiency - immediate understanding and use any and all weapons with the proficiency of a master. Someone with this ability need only to pick up a weapon before they instantly become proficient in it.

Other Variations

• Agriculture Intuition: to have innate understanding of Agriculture/Aquaculture.
• Acting Intuition: to have innate knowledge on how to act.
• Alien Intuition: to have innate understanding of alien species, languages and technology.
• Animal Intuition: to have innate understanding of animals.
• Anthropology Intuition: to have innate understanding of culture, tradition, and custom.
• Answer Intuition: to know the answer to any question or problem one happens to experience.
• Artistic Intuition: to have skills, techniques and/or knowledge in artistic activities and all forms of art.
• Aviation Intuition: to have extraordinary skill in piloting aircrafts, spacecrafts, etc.
• Bladesmithing Intuition: to have an innate understanding of bladesmithing.
• Boarding Intuition:  to have extraordinary skill in riding boards.
• Boat Intuition: have extraordinary skill in operating watercraft.
• Botany Intuition: to have innate knowledge of plants and fungi.
• Boxing Intuition: Have innate knowledge and skills in boxing.
• Business Intuition: to have innate knowledge of how to run businesses and companies.
• Change Sense: to have innate knowledge of any change made.
• Chaos Sense: to have innate knowledge of anything chaos related.
• Chronological Intuition: to understand an object, a person, or a system to the smallest aspects from different timelines.
• City Intuition: to have knowledge about any kind of city and its inhabitants.
• Computer Operation Intuition: to have skills and knowledge at operating computers.
• Conspiracy Intuition: to have skill to understand the lies and secrets.
• Countering Intuition: to possess extensive, if not innate, knowledge of countering physical attacks.
• Criminology Intuition: to have innate knowledge of how to perform perfect crimes and run criminal organizations without leaving a trace.
• Cryptozoology Intuition: to understand the study of cryptids.
• Culinary Intuition: to master all culinary skills and techniques.
• Cultivation Intuition: to innately understand various learning and schooling processes.
• Danger Intuition: to detect impending threats.
• Deception Intuition : to be good con artist and intricate liar.
• Decision Intuition : to be innately capable of ensuring success and victory through a certain sequence of choices.
• Definition Intuition: to know the definitions of anything.
• Desire Intuition: to know the deepest desires of anyone.
• Detail Intuition: to notice any and all details, no matter how small.
• Eldritch Intuition: To possess an underlying understanding of various outerworld creatures and their culture.
• Elucidation: to innately understand complex concepts.
• Excavation Intuition: to know about excavating things.
• Experience Intuition: to know intuitively the experience of anything.
• Experimentation: to innately detected the concepts of an experiment.
• Fashion Intuition: to have innate understanding, knowledge and skills in fashion.
• Game Intuition: to possess great skills in playing games.
• Gardening Intuition: to have intuitive understanding and skills in gardening.
• Genetics Intuition:  to have innate understanding of genetics.
• Glider Intuition: to have extraordinary skills and understanding of operating gliders.
• Gunsmithing Intuition: have an innate understanding of gunsmithing.
• Hacking Intuition: to possess intuitively high skills in hacking machinery and technological systems.
• History Intuition: to possess intuitive and accurate knowledge and understanding of all historical events.
• Humor Intuition: to be innately skilled in telling jokes or using humor.
• Hunting Intuition: to innately have to be highly skilled in hunting any and all prey.
• Housekeeping Aptitude: to possess intuitive aptitude for housekeeping.
• Interrogation Intuition: to innately know how to extract information from an opponent through different forms of interrogation.
• Intimidation Intuition: to possess an innate knowledge of intimidation.
• Journalist Intuition: to possess extensive, if not innate, skills as a journalist.
• Juggling Intuition: to have greatly enhanced skills in juggling.
• Killing Intuition: to have perfect intuition on killing styles.
• Labyrinth Intuition: to have perfect intuition in terms of knowing labyrinths.
• Law Intuition: to understand various laws.
• Leadership Intuition:  To have innate understanding of how to be a great leader
• Linguistic Intuition: to understand, write, read and speak all forms of languages, fluently.
• Literary Intuition: to have intuitive understanding of literary techniques and styles.
• Logic Intuition: to innately know all of the reasons for anything.
• Maintenance Intuition: to have intuitive knowledge on how to groom and maintain oneself and others.
• Magicians Intuition: to have a talent of deception through stage performances.
• Martial Arts Intuition: to intuitively understand all Martial Arts.
• Material Intuition: to verify what a compound object is made up of.
• Mech Piloting Intuition: to have extraordinary skill in piloting mechs/mecha/giant robots.
• Metallurgy Intuition: to have an innate understanding of metallurgy.
• Nature Intuition:  to have innate knowledge about nature and natural forces.
• Navigation Intuition: to have innate knowledge on navigating through any area.
• Necropsy Intuition: to have knowledge of extracting information of a corpse.
• Negotiation Intuition: to be innately skilled in negotiating
• Opportunity Sense: to have innate sense of opportunities and how to seize them.
• Order Sense: to have innate knowledge on anything order related.
• Paranormal Expertise: to have innate knowledge and information about the entire paranormal world and all supernatural phenomenon.
• Parapsychology Intuition:  to understand the study of parapsychology.
• Party Intuition to have knowledge on parties.
• Path Sense: to have innate knowledge on which paths can be taken.
• Pedagogy Intuition : to understand education and teaching.
• Performance Art Intuition: to understand performance arts.
• Photographic Deduction: Intuitively observe environment and deduces any connections to situations and process them extremely fast.
• Planetary Intuition: to possess intuitive knowledge and understanding of planets/worlds.
• Plumbing Intuition: to possess intuitive knowledge and understanding of plumbing.
• Poisoning Intuition: to possess intuitive knowledge and/or skill in the use of poisonous substances.
• Political Intuition: to possess intuitive knowledge and understanding in politics.
• Pop Culture Intuition: to be intuitive in popular culture.
• Prank Intuition: to be highly proficient in the art of pranks.
• Preparation Time Intuition: to be intuitive in using prep time for either combative or non-combative purposes.
• Psionic Intuition: to gain knowledge through psionic means.
• Psychological Intuition: to understand the way the mind works to the smallest details. Allows user to detect lies, and perform perfect cold-readings.
• Rescue Intuition: to possess intuitive knowledge and/or skill in rescuing.
• Religion Intuition: to possess innate knowledge and understanding of every form of faith, religion, and belief.
• Ricochet Intuition: to posses intuitive knowledge of how to create ricochet.
• Riders Aptitude: to possess extraordinary driving and riding skills.
• Robotics Intuition: to have an innate understanding of robotics.
• Sarcasm Intuition: to be innately skilled in making witty remarks and sarcastic mocks.
• Science-Magic Intuition: to possess intuitive/instant understanding science and magic.
• Sex Specialist - to possess intuitive and expertise understanding of sex.
• Shatterpoint Intuition: to possess extensive, if not innate, knowledge of weak points in objects.
• Spatial Intuition: to understand the angles and mapping of areas with adjusting.
• Special Ops Mastery: to innately or through training have special operations skills and maintain them without the need of further training.
• Teaching Intuition: to have skill and knowledge in teaching/training others.
• Temporal Intuition: to innately know the date and time.
• Torture Intuition: to possess an innate understanding of torturing.
• Trading Intuition: to have skill and knowledge in selling/trading.
• Trapping Intuition: to proficiently create a variety of unique and difficult traps for others to fall for.
• Universal Intuition: to possess intuitive knowledge and understanding of universes/dimensions.
• Vehicle Intuition: to operate a variety of different vehicles (cars, aircraft, etc.) with ease.
• Video Game Intuition: to play any kind of video game with ease.
• Virology Intuition: to have an innate understanding of virology.
• Weakness Detection: to intuitively observe anything and instantly understand the weakness of anything, including people, objects, relationships, societies, structures, organizations, laws of nature, etc.

Associations

• Combined with Empathic Mimicry, the user may gain Intuitive Empathic Replication.
• Enhanced Intuition
• Encyclopedic Knowledge
• Enhanced Intelligence
• Enhanced Wisdom
• Enlightenment
• Hypercognition
• Instant Learning
• Intuitive Bilingualism
• Intuitive Multilingualism
• Intuitive Precognition
• Knowledge Replication
• Neuro-Psychic Knowledge
• Numerical Precision
• Omni-Intuition
• Omnicompetence
• Psionic Intuition

Limitations

• Can still forget known information.
• While most logical things can be understood, some things may be innately illogical or have no logical method of understanding.
• May have the side affect of becoming obsessed with knowing more of everything.
• May only work as a "gut feeling" rather than giving the user the whole picture.
• Could suffer from information overload.

Known Users

Comics/Cartoons

• Ben Tennyson (Ben 10)
• Nanomech (Ben 10 Series)
• Kal-El/Clark Kent/Superman (DC Comics)
• Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)
• Madman (Image Comics)
• Thraxans (Image Comics)
• Steve Rogers/Captain America (Marvel Comics); via Super-Soldier Serum
• Kraven the Hunter (Marvel Comics); via Calypso Serum
• Shatterstar (Marvel Comics)
• Forge (Marvel Comics)
• Teon Macik/Primal (Marvel Comics)
• Wendell Vaughn/Quasar (Marvel Comics)

Anime/Manga

• Shinichi Kudo/Jimmy Kudo (Detective Conan/Case Closed)
• Takagi Wataru/Harry Wilder (Detective Conan/Case Closed)
• Yusaku Kudo/Booker Kudo (Detective Conan/Case Closed)
• Meruem (Hunter X Hunter)
• Pillar Men (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part II Battle Tendency)
• Kiriyama Kazuo (Battle Royale)
• Mamoru Kagemori (Kage Kara Mamoru); temporarily via Shinijitesu
• Tsunayoshi Sawada (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!)
• Evil Rain Bow Man (Kekki Genkai Heroes)
• Maguro Kurokami (Medaka Box)
• Diego Brando ("JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part VII Steel Ball Run"); enhanced later on via the Saint's Corpse
• Shuzen Akua (Rosario + Vampire: Season II)
• Answer-Talker users (Zatch Bell!)
• Lelei La Lalena (Gate)

Live Television/Movies

• Charles Irving "Chuck" Bartowski (Chuck); via The Intersect
• The Doctor (Doctor Who)
• River Tam (Firefly/Serenity)
• Arthur Petrelli (Heroes)
• Peter Petrelli (Heroes)
• Samson Gray (Heroes)
• Sylar (Heroes)
• Chase Davenport (Lab Rats)
• Edward "Eddie" Morra (Limitless); via NZT-48
• Brian Finch (Limitless TV Series); via NZT-48
• Billy Cranston (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers)
• J.J. Powell (No Ordinary Family)
• Mackenzie Hartford (Power Rangers Operation Overdrive)

Video Games

• Link (The Legend of Zelda)
• Jojo Achimu (Ninjutsu series)
• Human Rashi (Ninjutsu series)

Literature

• Virtue (Gone series)
• Ikki Kurogane (Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry); via Perfect Vision
• Mycroft Holmes (Sherlock Holmes novels)
• Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes novels)
• Professor Moriarty (Sherlock Holmes novels)
• Khayman and other First Brood vampires (The Vampire Chronicles)
• Savant Vega/Lethe (Skulduggery Pleasant)
• Children of Hephaestus (Percy Jackson)
  • Leo Valdez
  • Charles Beckendorf

Known Objects

• The Intersect (Chuck)
• NZT drug (Limitless)
• Calypso Serum (Marvel Comics)
• Super-Soldier Serum (Marvel Comics)

Gallery

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.

Ben Tennyson (Ben 10) is an exceedingly fast learner as he's able to use his aliens and their powers at a professional level even after only moments of discovering them.

River Tam (Firefly/Serenity)

Liv Moore (iZombie) can gain intuitive abilities by eating the brains of many recently killed victims.

Born from prehistoric era, the Pillar Men (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part II Battle Tendency) are able to instantly analyze and understand anything in modern day.

Link (The Legend of Zelda) learns how to use new weapons and items the minute he obtains them.

JJ Powell (No Ordinary Family) refers to this ability as his "Super Brain".

Ikki Kurogane's (Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry) Perfect Vision allows him to grasp not only an individual's fighting style but also their personalities, tendencies, and the true nature of their abilities.

After witnessing Toho Fuhai (Rosario + Vampire: Season II) perform the long-range version of the Moon Crushing Dimension Blade…

…Shuzen Akua (Rosario + Vampire: Season II) intuitively learned how to do the same.

Lelei La Lalena (Gate) can learn and absorb new and complex knowledge within a day.