Preemptive Adaptation

Preemptive Adaptation
Darwin (Marvel Comics)
Power/Ability to:	Instantly gain powers and/or skills in response to future threats.

The power to instantly develop powers and/or skills in response to unavoidable and imminent threats in the future. Combination of Precognition and Reactive Adaptation.

Also Called

• Precognitive Adaptation
• Proactive Adaptation

Capabilities

The user can instantly develop powers and skills in response to imminent threats. They can grow hardened skin after foreseeing being shot to death or stabbed. The user will even develop a power to counteract the powers of another, such as gaining a Psychic Shield to protect oneself from a soon to be telepathic intrusion.

Applications (General)

• Precognition
• Reactive Adaptation

Applications (Detail)

Depending on what one foresees, the user could develop many different powers, such as:

• Aquatic Breathing prior to immersion in water.
• Atmospheric Adaptation prior to travel in high altitudes.
• Enhanced/Supernatural Intelligence when faced with intelligence-based challenges.
• Enhanced/Supernatural Regeneration in response to a physical threat.
• Enhanced/Supernatural Strength in response to a physical challenge.
• Environmental Adaptation
• Invulnerability
• Oxygen Independence when entering an oxygen-free environment.
• Prescient Reflexes
• Psychic Shield
• Power Opposition
• Selective Invulnerability

Associations

• Meta Power Opposition
• Superior Adaptation
• Supernatural Survivability

Limitations

• Only activates for imminent or very probable threats to the user.
• May not be able to pre-emptively adapt to Precognitive Immunity as they can’t be foreseen.
• The powers gained are likely to be lost once the threat is gone.
  • Certain users may be limited by the number of powers they can hold at once. Powers gained can be lost in favor of more relevant ones.

Known Users

• Ben Tennyson (Ben 10 series); via the Omnitrix
• Cosmic Armor Superman (DC Comics); limited
• Darwin (Marvel Comics)
• Eidolon (Worm)
• Doomsday (DC Comics: all timelines)

Gallery

Cosmic Armor Superman (DC Comics) can instantly adapt to counter any future threats.

Eidolon (Worm) can equip different powers based on what his ability thinks he needs in the moment.

SCP-682 is known to be the most reactive being in the SCP-Foundation, which it is shown that it does not only adapt to certain conditions but even incorporates the abilities of the threats and add it into its own arsenal, allowing it to develop weaknesses and opposite abilities of the SCPs that were brought out for termination testing's.

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