Power

The Power refers to the supernatural abilities displayed by several of the teenage residents of Perdido Beach.

The Power manifests itself in several abilities that the teenagers handle in different ways. Using the Power slowly exhausts the user, but this is usually nearly imperceptible (with the exceptions of Enhanced Speed and Shockwave Projection). The most common exhibited so far is teleportation, shown by Taylor, Albert's Cat, an unnamed monkey outside the FAYZ, Little Pete, and Emily, though each of their teleportation abilities are slightly different.

Kids gained powers by the combination of radiation exposure and the alien virus seeping into the local water supply, reacting with seemingly random DNA to create powers. An estimated 30 children developed a Power before the FAYZ began and many more developed a Power after the events occurred causing the FAYZ barrier to appear.

Jack brought to the attention of the Coates kids that power abilities seem to be focused almost exclusively through the hands. (This is however not always the case; Jill's power is focused through her tongue/voice although she is one of the very few exceptions.) As a result of this observation, Caine had kids in Coates Academy he did not trust have their hands encased in cement (a process they termed "plastering") in order to stop them from rebelling.

Although not shown below, it can be assumed that the Gaiaphage and creatures possessed in a similar way to Gaia Soren-Ladris, would have had access to all powers as long as the mutated individual was alive. During the FAYZ powers worked as a two-sided affair, requiring both the Gaiaphage and the person to be alive (or at least in a state of animation for Drake Merwin). Should the Gaiaphage or person die, the power is lost for both. An example of this happening is when Gaia kills Brianna and then attempts to use the power of enhanced speed, she finds herself unable to use it thereby realizing how careful she must be to reach her goal.

In Light, Lana mentions to Astrid that each mutant has a different power. This isn't the case at the start of the series, as many kids (such as Sam and Bette or Bug and the unnamed Coates girl) are seen to have almost identical powers. Michael Grant has stated that this is explained as a coincidence resulting from a random process.

As stated by Natalie Green during Monster, over Fifty-one out of the Hundred Thirty Two Kids who survived being trapped in the FAYZ indeed up developing a supernatural power. However a majority of them only ended up developing a very minor ability and only nineteen developed major powers.

Power levels
Diana invented a power level system that ranges from one to four bars. The higher the bar, the stronger the power. The idea of using bars is taken from the bars used to indicate signal strength on a mobile phone.


 * Five Bar or Higher
 * Little Pete
 * Gaia


 * Four Bars
 * Caine
 * Sam


 * Three Bars
 * Brianna
 * Dekka
 * Penny
 * Andrew
 * Taylor
 * Orsay


 * Two Bars
 * Jack
 * Astrid (formerly)
 * Diana
 * Bug


 * One Bars
 * Virtue
 * Mickey


 * Unknown / Undetermined Levels
 * Toto (estimated 2 bar)
 * Sinder (estimated 2 bar)
 * Jill (estimated 2 bar)
 * Bette (estimated 1 bar)
 * Duck (estimated 2 bar)
 * Hunter (estimated 3 bar)
 * Fire Girl (estimated 2 bar)
 * Lana (estimated 3 bar)
 * Darla (estimated 2 bar)
 * Frederico (estimated 2 bar)
 * Emily (estimated 3 bar)
 * Brittney
 * Thuan
 * Benno

Monster Trilogy Powers
The powers in the Monster trilogy heavily differ from the powers in the original series. They are obtained by consuming some of one of the ASO rocks. The more consumed, the more powerful you become. The powers are known as "morphs", as the person will turn into a different creature, which will have powers of its own on some occasions. All morphers except Francis are able to hear the voices of the Dark Watchers in their heads when they morph.