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| Maury is [[Uluru]]. || None || {{plus}} In an [http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=10548 interview], the writers stated that "we would see a hint of Uluru before the season is over".<br>{{plus}} Molly states that, if she uses her power to see this person, he can see her back. While using his power, [[Isaac]] saw Uluru, and Uluru saw and spoke to Isaac. (''[[Isaac's First Time]]'')<br>{{plus}} Uluru has been hinted at as a villain for quite some time now. This could be a set-up to [[Season Two]].<br>{{minus}}Kring [http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=11412 confirmed] that Uluru only existed in the pages of the comic books. |
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| Maury has an ulterior motive for telling [[Daphne]] to recruit [[Matt]] into the [[Pinehearst Company]]. || None || {{plus}} If Maury, a [[telepath]], is already a member, why would they need Matt, another telepath?<br /> |
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| Maury angered the [[Company]] and left his family to keep them from getting involved. || Matt's father left when Matt was thirteen years old (''[[The Kindness of Strangers]]'') || {{plus}} The time Matt's father left would be during the time he was a veteran in the Company.<br>{{plus}}Molly states that she doesn't want to find Mr. Parkman using her ability because he sees her. This may imply that the Company used her to find him previously, as she would not have reason to use her ability to find him otherwise.<br>{{plus}}In ''[[Fight or Flight]]'', Maury tells Matt that he had to leave, and it was very difficult for him. |
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:{{minus}} It's logical for Pinehearst to recruit multiple individuals with the same ability.<br /> |
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: {{minus}}Of course, he could have easily been lying about this to cover himself, given that his son was angry and holding a gun on him.<br> |
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:{{minus}} It doesn't seem likely that Maury would go over Arthur's head.<br /> |
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:{{minus}}Additionally, after leaving Matt and [[Nathan]] in an illusion where they can unintentionally bludgeon each other to death, Maury doesn't strike me as much of a family man. |
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:{{plus}} Maury may be recruiting his own Trojan army at Pinehearst to overthrow Arthur Petrelli in a coup, starting with Matt and Daphne.<br /> |
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:{{minus}} Arthur also insisted in recruiting Matt.<br /> |
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| Although [[Maury]]'s physical body is dead, his [[telepathy]] allows his mind to survive and possibly return in a later episode (possibly in another body). || None || {{plus}} Both [[Charles Deveaux]]'s and [[Hana Gitelman]]'s minds have survived beyond physical death.<br /> |
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| Maury didn't mean to hurt [[Molly Walker]] when she located him in ''[[Episode:The Kindness of Strangers|The Kindness of Strangers]]''. || None || {{plus}} Mr. Parkman might just have wanted to scare her away and she fainted from shock instead.<br> |
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{{plus}} The Astral Plain in Marvel comics allows psychics to survive physical death and it wouldn't be the first idea the Heroes team have "borrowed" from the X-Men.<br /> |
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: {{Minus}} We see that Mr. Parkman intentionally placed Matt and Nathan in a malicious dream trance and walked away, happily. ''[[Fight or Flight]]''<br>{{Minus}}The cockroach nightmares Maury subjected Molly to in {{epp|gn56}} were too severe and traumatizing to be of harmless intent. |
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<br>{{plus}} Mr. Parkman might just be able to detect someone's presence using his power, and he didn't know it was Molly Walker who had located him.<br> |
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| [[Maury]] lost his powers to [[Arthur]] once, but regained them by taking the [[formula]] serum. || None || {{note}} [[Telepathy]] had to come from somewhere.<br /> |
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: {{Minus}}Molly has said before that when she looks for and finds the Nightmare Man, that he can see her. |
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{{minus}} Nothing suggests Maury ever lost his ability.<br /> |
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{{minus}} It seems more likely that Arthur would have taken the ability from someone that he did not deem as useful to him as Maury was.<br /> |
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{{plus}} Arthur told Peter that he can give Peter his powers back using the formula. He seemed pretty sure that it would work. So the formula had already been used to give a powerless evolved human his power back. This could be Maury.<br /> |
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:{{minus}} But it didn't give Peter his powers back, indicating speculation.<br /> |
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:{{minus}} Arthur being sure doesn't constitute the formula doing that in the past.<br /> |
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| [[Maury]] was responsible for "healing" Nathan at the start of Season 3. || We know for a fact that [[Maury]] was responsible for [[Nathan]]'s visions of [[Linderman]], placing him at the hospital just after Nathan was shot. || {{plus}} It seems likely that [[Maury]] would try to "sell" Nathan's miracle visions with a "miracle recovery". After all, Nathan's visions of the afterlife wouldn't work if the doctor's told him he was never legally dead.<br /> |
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{{plus}} It would be well within his powers to manipulate the doctors into thinking Nathan had died, even if the surgery had been successful. All it would take is a few seconds of mind-control...<br /> |
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| [[Maury]] is a [[precog]]. || None || {{plus}} Matt is a precog.<br /> |
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:{{plus}} Maury's ability could be hereditary and he passed on both telepathy and precognition to Matt.<br /> |
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:{{plus}} Telepathy is likely to be connected to precognition if Matt were to have gotten both of his abilities naturally.<br /> |
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{{plus}} Maury had known about his ability longer than Matt had when he had discovered he was a precog, giving Maury a higher chance of discovering that he was a precog.<br /> |
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{{minus}} Maury was never stated as having either met a precog or gone on a spirit walk.<br /> |
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{{minus}} The writer's have stated that Matt's powers are developing in ways his father's never did or could have. Precognition could simply be one of these developments.<br /> |
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| [[Maury]] succeeded another founder in the Group of Twelve || None || {{plus}} He joined in 1978 after Victoria left and after Adam's imprisonment.<br /> |
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| Maury was not Matt's birth father. || None ||{{minus}} Their powers are very similar.<br> |
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:{{plus}} It is not confirmed that powers are hereditary. It could just be coincidence.<br> |
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::{{Minus}} This would be a very unlikely coincidence, especially since Maury and Matt look like father and son.<br> |
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{{plus}} None of the other evolved families thus far have had direct inheritance of a similar power. <br> |
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:{{Minus}}Perhaps the same power is more likely to be passed on if only one parent has a power.<br> |
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::{{plus}}If [[James Walker]] had the same power as [[Molly]], [[Sylar]] wouldn't have needed hers. |
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:{{minus}}Perhaps mental powers are more likely to be inherited. One example of this could be the [[Haitian]] and [[Guillaume]], since their powers are similar. The single parent theory above could also apply to them.<br> |
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{{plus}} Maury might have left Matt when his son was thirteen because he knew Matt wasn't his, just as Matt left Janice. <br> |
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{{plus}} Matt's willingness to adopt Molly may be a sign that he was also adopted. <br> |
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| Maury has an ulterior motive for telling Daphne to recruit Matt into the Pinehearst Company. | None | + If Maury, a telepath, is already a member, why would they need Matt, another telepath?
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| Although Maury's physical body is dead, his telepathy allows his mind to survive and possibly return in a later episode (possibly in another body). | None | + Both Charles Deveaux's and Hana Gitelman's minds have survived beyond physical death. + The Astral Plain in Marvel comics allows psychics to survive physical death and it wouldn't be the first idea the Heroes team have "borrowed" from the X-Men. |
| Maury lost his powers to Arthur once, but regained them by taking the formula serum. | None | • Telepathy had to come from somewhere. - Nothing suggests Maury ever lost his ability.
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| Maury was responsible for "healing" Nathan at the start of Season 3. | We know for a fact that Maury was responsible for Nathan's visions of Linderman, placing him at the hospital just after Nathan was shot. | + It seems likely that Maury would try to "sell" Nathan's miracle visions with a "miracle recovery". After all, Nathan's visions of the afterlife wouldn't work if the doctor's told him he was never legally dead. + It would be well within his powers to manipulate the doctors into thinking Nathan had died, even if the surgery had been successful. All it would take is a few seconds of mind-control... |
| Maury is a precog. | None | + Matt is a precog.
+ Maury had known about his ability longer than Matt had when he had discovered he was a precog, giving Maury a higher chance of discovering that he was a precog. |
| Maury succeeded another founder in the Group of Twelve | None | + He joined in 1978 after Victoria left and after Adam's imprisonment. |
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