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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}}Tim 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 />
| Maury angered the [[Company]] and left his family to keep them from getting involved.
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:{{minus}} It's logical for Pinehearst to recruit multiple individuals with the same ability.<br />
| 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 />
:{{minus}} It doesn't seem likely that Maury would go over Arthur's head.<br />
:{{plus}} Maury may be recruiting his own Trojan army at Pinehearst to overthrow Arthur Petrelli in a coup, starting with Matt and Daphne.<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 />
:{{minus}} Arthur also insisted in recruiting Matt.<br />
{{plus}}In ''[[Fight or Flight]]'', Maury tells Matt that he had to leave, and it was very difficult for him.
:{{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 />
:{{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.<br />
:{{plus}}Maury has thus far shown that he was a supporter of [[Adam]]'s plans. After Adam was imprisoned, [[the Company]] may have thought Maury might try to free him, so Maury would have to have left [[Matt]] and his mother to protect them.
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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 />
| The entire ''Heroes'' world only exists in our heads due to Maury's use of telepathy. || None. || {{plus}} Nathan, Matt, and Niki had no idea that their visions were a result of Maury Parkman's power.<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 />
{{minus}} Deus Ex Machina is a horrible writing device and ''Heroes'' is pretty awesome so far.<br>
{{minus}}Maury's use of telepathy is part of the ''Heroes'' world
:{{plus}}That's exactly what Maury wants you to believe.
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| Maury was not Matt's birth father. || None. ||{{minus}} Their powers are very similar.<br />
| [[Maury]] lost his powers to [[Arthur]] once, but regained them by taking the [[formula]] serum. || None || {{note}} [[Telepathy]] had to come from somewhere.<br />
{{minus}} Nothing suggests Maury ever lost his ability.<br />
:{{plus}} It is not confirmed that powers are hereditary. It could just be coincidence.<br />
::{{minus}} This would be a very unlikely coincidence, especially since Maury and Matt look like father and son.<br />
{{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 />
{{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 />
{{plus}} None of the other evolved families thus far have had direct inheritance of a similar power. <br />
:{{minus}}Perhaps the same power is more likely to be passed on if only one parent has a power.<br />
:{{minus}} But it didn't give Peter his powers back, indicating speculation.<br />
:{{minus}} Arthur being sure doesn't constitute the formula doing that in the past.<br />
::{{plus}} If [[James Walker]] had the same power as [[Molly]], [[Sylar]] wouldn't have needed hers.<br />
::{{Minus}} Sylar couldn't have known what Molly's powers were. He only went after her because he knew she had a power.<br />
::{{Minus}} James could have died before Sylar took his brain. Sylar may have just tried in vain to take his powers.<br />
:{{minus}}Perhaps mental powers are more likely to be inherited. One example of this could be the [[Haitian]] and [[Guillame]], since their powers are similar. The single parent theory above could also apply to them.<br />
{{plus}} Maury might have left Matt when his son was thirteen because he knew Matt wasn't his, just as Matt left Janice. <br />
{{plus}} Matt's willingness to adopt Molly may be a sign that he was also adopted.<br />
:{{minus}} It may also be because she's cute, and Matt's a nice guy.
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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 />
| [[Maury Parkman]] was in fact working for someone other than [[Adam Monroe]]. || None. || {{note}} Maury is still alive; it is likely he will appear again in [[Volume 3]]. <br />
{{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 />
{{plus}} Maury could easily have killed either [[Angela Petrelli]] or [[Bob]]. Why simply scare Angela and never attempt it again?<br />
:{{minus}} Because he failed to kill her. She resisted his attack.<br />
:{{minus}} If he intentionally spared them, that raises a new question; why would he ''scare'' them, and make them ''think'' he was working for Adam?<br />
{{plus}} Maury did not kill either Matt or Nathan, when he knew they were preparing to stop him.<br />
:{{note}} The only source that implies he was coming to harm [[Matt]] or [[Nathan]] is from Bob, who appears to be the target and is certainly unreliable. (''[[Out of Time]]'')<br />
{{plus}} Adam carries pictures of his victims with him. Maury does not, instead leaving them to be found by his pursuers.<br />
:{{minus}} Perhaps it was a simple mistake; he didn't appear to know Nathan and Matt were coming to his [[apartment]].<br />
{{plus}} We know for a fact that Maury was working for [[Arthur Petrelli]].
:{{minus}} The threat was in the same distinct style as all of Adam's; why would he have Bob's photo? (''[[Fight or Flight]]'')<br />
::{{note}} It is possible he forged his death threat to gain credibility.<br />
{{plus}} No motive has been given for Maury siding with Adam. Being a telepath and one of the original twelve, Maury would know Adam's plans for genocide. While Maury has clearly been described as certainly evil, he has not been shown as either a Linderman-style healer or a genocide nut like Adam.<br />
:{{minus}} Adam is certainly manipulative, though; perhaps he promised Maury the gift of immortality. Or perhaps he agreed with Adam's misanthropy, just as [[Angela]] agreed with [[Linderman]]'s utilitarianism.<br />
{{plus}} Maury wouldn't be worried about Adam. Adam can only regenerate, Maury can control minds and create nightmares. He might still need the shotgun, but Adam would still be at a huge disadvantage.<br />
:{{minus}} Angela has shown resistance to persuasion. Adam, being significantly older, might even be immune to telepathy; [[Peter]] never attempted to read his mind.<br />
{{plus}} Maury wouldn't be worried about the Company either. Perhaps [[the Haitian]] might dampen his powers, but even Matt Parkman discovered his powers could break through the Haitian's power.<br />
:{{minus}} His motive did not appear to be fear.<br />
{{minus}} Bob says Maury is the blunt instrument. Obviously Adam has manipulated him in some way, and has allowed some sort of advantage for Maury in return for killing the other founders.<br />
{{minus}} Maury didn't attack Angela or Bob until immediately after Adam was released.
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| [[Maury]] is a [[precog]]. || None || {{plus}} Matt is a precog.<br />
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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?
:{{plus}} Maury's ability could be hereditary and he passed on both telepathy and precognition to Matt.<br />
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: {{minus}} It's logical for Pinehearst to recruit multiple individuals with the same ability.
:{{plus}} Telepathy is likely to be connected to precognition if Matt were to have gotten both of his abilities naturally.<br />
: {{minus}} It doesn't seem likely that Maury would go over Arthur's head.
: {{plus}} Maury may be recruiting his own Trojan army at Pinehearst to overthrow Arthur Petrelli in a coup, starting with Matt and Daphne.
{{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 />
{{minus}} Maury was never stated as having either met a precog or gone on a spirit walk.<br />
{{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's death was only an illusion created by his power. || None. || {{plus}} He could be trying to manipulate someone, possibly Daphne, by making it look like Arthur killed him.<br />
{{minus}} Maury would have to be a ridiculously quick thinker to make an illusion like that, with such a quick change of events.<br />
:{{plus}} Maury raised objections to Arthur's assassination order many moments before Arthur "killed" him. In addition to the fact that he's been working for Arthur for many years, it wouldn't take that long for him to figure out that protecting his son would mean his life, given the man he was going up against, and it wouldn't take that long for him to figure out a plan to try and protect his son whilst still protecting his own life.<br />
::{{minus}} [[Arthur]] is also a telepath, so Maury's power would have been canceled out (as with [[Matt]] and [[Peter]]).
:::{{plus}} Two telepaths don't necessarily "cancel out". This was shown when Maury trapped Matt in a dream, and vice-versa, and they are both telepaths.<br />
:{{plus}} If this were the case, Arthur could have been in on it in order to manipulate Daphne this way to put fear into her (to support the theory, but would make no real sense since Arthur could have directly manipulated Daphne).<br />
{{plus}} Maury could have read her mind, noted she was developing feelings for Matt, and faked his own death to convince her how evil Arthur could be, and driving her to Matt's side, who he knew would see the good person she really was.<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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{{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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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?
- It's logical for Pinehearst to recruit multiple individuals with the same ability.
- It doesn't seem likely that Maury would go over Arthur's head.
+ Maury may be recruiting his own Trojan army at Pinehearst to overthrow Arthur Petrelli in a coup, starting with Matt and Daphne.
- Arthur also insisted in recruiting Matt.
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.
- 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.
+ 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.

- But it didn't give Peter his powers back, indicating speculation.
- Arthur being sure doesn't constitute the formula doing that in the past.
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's ability could be hereditary and he passed on both telepathy and precognition to Matt.
+ Telepathy is likely to be connected to precognition if Matt were to have gotten both of his abilities naturally.

+ 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 was never stated as having either met a precog or gone on a spirit walk.
- 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.

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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