Resistance

Golem fights against Macy's power

**Resistance** is the power to resist and fight through certain magical abilities and/or spells. This is not a term or label of a power used in-universe, but rather describes a trait suggested to be inherent to some magical beings, such as demons and witches.

## Overview

The following magical powers have shown vulnerability to resistance:

* **Telekinetic Immobilization:** The Chupa-Alma was able to fight against being held by Macy Vaughn's telekinetic powers. However, Macy was able to stay focused enough to keep the monster immobilized.
* **Telepathy:** Certain users have been known to have resistance against some telepathic abilities.
	+ **Empathic Telepathy:** Parker Caine was able to deceive Maggie's telepathic powers by using certain intended thoughts to hide his more suspicious ones.
	+ **Mesmerizing:** Charity Callahan was noted to be able to resist being mesmerized. However, if the user is powerful enough, they may be able to affect her.
	+ **Memory Erasure:** The Charmed Ones are able to resist the effects of this ability to a certain extent, allowing the memories to slowly bleed back through. The exact limit of this is unknown, as the sisters have all had their memories erased without the memories coming back. It is possible that it only works when the memories are removed without consent.
* **Temporal Stasis:** Taydeus, the Imposter Demon and Hunter Caine were able to struggle against remaining frozen in time, regaining movement for a fraction of a second before freezing again. Mel Vera stated that she did not believe she would be able to keep demons with this ability frozen for long. It has been assumed that beings with this ability retain some awareness that time has stopped, which allows them to struggle against its effects.
* **The Power of Three:** Darklighters have an incredibly high resistance to magic. Jimmy, Harry Greenwood's Darklighter, was capable of resisting the Power of Three, fighting through the Charmed Ones' containment. The second magic infused monster created by the Faction was able to withstand the Power of Three for a few moments before finally being vanquished.
* **Molecular Inhibition:** The second magic infused monster created by the Faction was able to fight through Mel's molecular freezing abilities. She was only able to freeze his head for a moment before he broke free.
* **Molecular Acceleration:** The tentacle creature was able to briefly fight against Mel's molecular power before finally succumbing to the effects and being vanquished.

The following spells have shown vulnerability to resistance:

* **Containment Spells:** The Perfecti are able to break through certain containment spells. Mo was able to reach through Mel's containment spell. It can be presumed that Aladria would also be able to do this.

## Known Users

**Original Power**
* Darklighters
	+ Jimmy
* Demons
	+ Taydeus
	+ Unnamed Imposter Demon
	+ Hunter Caine
	+ Parker Caine (formerly)
* Witches
	+ Charity Callahan
* Chupa-Alma
* Tentacle Creature
* The Perfecti
* Golems

Through spells, artifacts, power stealing, etc
* Second Monster (via magical experiments)
* The Charmed Ones (presumably through the Power of Three)

## Similar Powers

* Immunity
* Power Negation

## Trivia

* In the original series, resisting and fighting through inhibitory powers, such as Piper’s freezes, was referred to as Adjusting.
* Having resistance to telepathic abilities could be an expansion of telepathy, as all of the individual users resistant to telepathy, already possess a form of it.
	+ The Charmed Ones have shown resistance to memory erasure, even though they don't all possess a telepathic ability, this could be a shared ability through Maggie's telepathic abilities or most likely, The Power of Three protecting them.

## Gallery

An Imposter Demon using this ability to momentarily break out of Mel's Temporal Stasis.The monster resists Macy's Telekinetic Immobilization.
## References

1. ↑ Can resist being contained by the Power of Three
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Resisted Mel's Temporal Stasis
3. ↑ Resisted Maggie's Empathic Telepathy to a certain extent
4. ↑ Can resist Mesmerizing to a certain extent
5. ↑ Can resist Telekinetic Immobilization to a certain extent and was only momentarily effected by Emotional Inception
6. ↑ Can resist Mel's Molecular Acceleration to a certain extent
7. ↑ Can resist certain containment spells
8. ↑ Can resist physical and magical attacks
9. ↑ Can resist Mel's Molecular Inhibition
10. ↑ Can resist Memory Erasure to a certain extent