Molecular Immobilization

**Similar To:** | Molecular ManipulationMolecular DecelerationMolecular Inhibition

**Molecular Immobilization** is the ability to slow down molecules to the point where they move so slowly that objects and people appear completely motionless, simulating stopping time in a localized range.

## Overview

The user can cause molecules of object/organism freeze in place, giving the effect similar to time stopping. They are capable of freezing select objects, only a part of a person while leaving the rest of the body in motion, multiple objects, or freezing an entire area. As with time-stop, targets' consciousness are also immobilized and they are unaware of anything that transpired while they were frozen.

### **Limitations**

* Freezing an entire scene, city or area may take more skill and control.
* Inexperienced users can can only make things stay frozen for only a few seconds.
* Users of Molecular Adjustment can resist.
* The freezing effect can be removed.
* The faster the molecules are, the harder it may be to freeze it, making users of Enhanced Speed and Molecular Acceleration highly resistant or immune to users of this.

* Piper Halliwell

This is Piper Halliwell's main Charmed power and strongest power overall.

In 1998, when her powers first became unbound they initially were a panic/fear responce. She quickly began to learn how to control her power - how to freeze and unfreeze on command. In 1999, she began to be able to freeze more powerful demons as well as learning to select a person to unfreeze while keeping the rest of the room frozen. The next year in 2000, Piper learned to freeze everything while keeping a selective few unfrozen. A few months later she learned how to selectively freeze based on a criterion, such as freezing only innocents. Not that long after that Piper learned she could unfreeze a selected body part, such as a head, allowing her to talk to a demon while their body is still frozen. By 2002, Piper no longer needed to see what she is freezing. She was able to freeze a room full of people while behind a door and just sticking her hand out from behid the door.

She gained control over this power quite quickly after it became unbound in 1998. She channels it through either waving her hand(s), flicking her wrists, or moving her fingers in the direction of the target.
## Developed Abilities

* **Body Immobilization** - to make people freeze within their current state in space.
* **Selective Freezing** -  allows the user to unfreeze certain parts or things, within the frozen area.
* **Inanimation** - to place targets (including objects and beings) into inanimate state, regardless of any force that acts on it, causing them to lose their ability to move and become inanimate.
* **Advanced Molecular Immobilization**- allows the user to freeze things on large-scale. When Piper used this in 1999, Prue said she froze "everything".
* **Paralysis Inducement** - to immobilize target completely or partially, causing them to be left without movement and sensation.

## Channelling

This power is always channelled through the use of one's hands, usually by stretching forward one or both arms at the target and extending one's fingers. However, pointing only one finger also worked. When Piper's hands were bound, she was rendered powerless. This also applied to Patty when her hands were restrained by hand cuffs. Unfreezing was usually done by waving one's fingers inwards at the frozen subject, as if physically pulling off the freeze. There were other gestures used to unfreeze that were demonstrated.

* Waving one's hand. Piper taught Denise how to unfreeze using a simple hand gesture; gently waving one's hand diagonally upwards.
* Pointing at the subject with all digits extended. When Curtis Williamson gained this power, he unfroze a doctor by simply pointing his hand forward.
* Flicking one's wrists. Piper unfroze a busy hospital by simply turning her wrists very slightly. She also unfroze a loud restraught by twisting her wrist with her index finger pointed.
* Moving only one's digits. Piper once unfroze Bane Jessup by tapping her fingers together while both her hands were joined. Piper also unfroze a Genie, while keeping the area frozen, by spinning her index finger at him in a circular motion.
* Nodding one's head. When Piper was a child before having her powers bound, she could unfreeze by nodding her head.

## Personal Gain

Piper has attempted to use this power a number of times for personal gain over the years. When at a beverage supply store, Josh takes the last bottle of Calera Jensen which Piper needs for a coq au vin recipe. She freezes him and is tempted to take it but then decides it's the wrong thing to do. Piper used the power to freeze a noisy restaurant when she was on a date with Leo. She also froze a hallway full of people, because they kept touching her stomach. Piper also uses the power to freeze regular humans a few times rather than for magical threats. She also uses this power for sexual purposes, as mentioned by Leo Wyatt.  Such abuses suffered little to no consequences probably because they would be considered minor infractions with little benefit.

## List of Users

**Original Power**

* Melinda Warren
* Patty Halliwell
* Piper Halliwell

**Temporary Power**

* Matthew Tate
* Curtis Williamson

## Notes

* If the user were to be sufficiently harmed or lose her power, any frozen individual would unfreeze immediately after.
* In 2000, Piper, while dressed as Glinda, the Good Witch, was able to channel her power through her toy wand and freeze the Grimlocks by waving it at them.
* Piper created a potion to duplicate this power in 2001.
* Even though Piper cannot freeze something if it's behind a physical barrier, she can still use her power successfully while wearing glove