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QUOTE(Silentsoto @ Nov 5 2007, 09:28 PM)
Yeah i think it's clear now that claire and "adam monroe" have different ablities, claire can regenerate, whilst Kensei is immortal, similar, but not quite the same.
I don't think there's any significant difference whatsoever...the ability to regenerate tissue amounts to immortality, effectively. There's no evidence that there's any difference in their powers. They both regenerate rapidly, Claire has even demonstrated regrowth of limbs, albeit a minor appendage.
Claire has died at least 2x that I'm sure of, not counting last week on the school steps. Once, when the quarterback tried to rape her and she woke up on the coroner's slab, opened wide to the navel, but when the stick was removed from her brain (the killing blow) she woke up, folded her chest closed and ran. That's pretty dead dude! I think short of decapitation there's really no stopping them, Claire, Takezo/Adam, Peter (doubly so, since he's absorbed the same power now from 2 sources).
Yes, Peter was at the center of a nuclear explosion, by all accounts...but check with any explosives expert and they'll tell you that the epicenter of an explosion is the safest place. As long as it didn't scatter his atoms, which it wouldn't have, since it originated with him and expanded outward
from his epidermis, there's no reason he shouldn't have been able to regenerate.
QUOTE(FacJoe @ Nov 5 2007, 10:10 PM)

What? I thought it was made clear that Claire and Kensei have the same abilities but Kensei's abilities are just x10000 of Claire's (or something like that), enough to make him last several centuries.
I'm all for a Kensei vs. Sylar. Sylar with a rock or anything blunt > Kensei, IMHO. Sylar's a lot more evil than Kensei. Even Hiro said that Kensei had a bit of humanity left in him.
I don't think there's anything more powerful about Takezo's power than Claire's, honestly...he's just been able to practice it longer is all. With careful behavior and minimal risk avoidance, there's no reason that anyone with this ability shouldn't live effectively forever.
Seriously, compare this with Highlander...some of those Immortals were thousands of years old. Never had a cold, never lost a tooth, or if they did, it grew back. Only one I can think of lost so much as a limb, the Fine Young Cannibal who lost his arm, what the heck was his name?... It's been too long.