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| Angela knows [[Claude]]. || Angela is caught shoplifting socks (''[[Genesis]]''). Her son [[Peter]] meets a man who uses [[invisibility]] to sort of frame him for purse snatching (''[[Distractions]]''). ||
{{note}}Claude has behaved as if he encountered people like Peter before — even helped them understand their powers. Perhaps those people include Angela and/or Peter's [[Mr. Petrelli|father]].
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| Angela and Adam are Nathan's true parents. || None || {{note}} Nathan could easily be thirty (he, or Sylar posing as him, was President in ''[[Five Years Gone]]'' and without laws changing one must be thirty-five to become President).<br />
| Angela is an [[empathic mimicry|empath]]. || None. || {{plus}}Angela's evasive answer to [[Claire]] indicates she may have a power. (''[[.07%]]'')<br>{{plus}} [[Claude]] has apparently encountered an empath before, since he seems familiar with [[Peter Petrelli|Peter's]] powers.
:{{note}} Although it's implied that Nathan will become President through the death of the current President, if he's not 35, he would be ineligible and the Presidency would pass down the line of succession.<br />
:{{minus}} However, he was not familiar with how an empath's powers work.
{{minus}} Arthur bears a strong family resemblance to Nathan, strongly implying a close biological relationship between the two.<br />
::{{note}} This could have been because the Empath he knew had powers that worked differently - no two evolved humans have yet been shown to possess similar, let alone the same powers. Also, he could have intentionally been misleading Peter about how his powers would work.<br>
{{minus}} ''[[War Buddies, Part 5]]'' implies that Nathan was born before Arthur and Angela ever met Adam.<br />
{{plus}} Empathy could explain any number of odd abilities she seems to have.<br>
{{plus}} In ''[[Out of Time]]'' Angela (Evacuation Future) helps [[Peter]] remember who he is by showing him her own life experiences. Peter possibly absorbed her empathic powers to do this.
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| The agents of the [[Company]] do not realize that Angela has a power. || None || {{plus}} When [[Noah]] returns to help find the Level 5 escapees, he states that he needs a partner, saying "You know how it works: One of us, one of them." Angela responds with "I have the perfect one of them in mind."<br />
|Angela has [[rapid cell regeneration]]. || None.||{{plus}}Angela's evasive answer to [[Claire]] indicates she may have a power. (''[[.07%]]'')<br>{{plus}} She seems to hint at this when she says to Claire, "You get that mouth from me." She had mentioned Claire being able to spit up bullets, so she may have been referring to this. (''[[.07%]]'')
:{{minus}} She was speaking of field agents in general. [[HRG]] is "one of us" (the non-powered agents), [[Sylar]] is "one of them" ([[evolved human]] agents).<br />
:{{minus}}It's more reasonable to say that Angela was referring to Claire's rude mouth: "Whether I want to or not." Angela too uses harsh words when she was talking to Peter after the shoplifting incident and in Peter's hospital bed after he tried to fly. She could also have been talking about a physical resemblance.
{{note}} Angela is one of the company's founders and presumably keeps a low profile.<br />
:{{Note}} When Angela says "Broken bones and spitting up bullets" she is referring to Claire's power.
{{minus}} If she did, Peter would not have needed to be close to Claire to heal, after battling Sylar at the Homecoming.
{{note}} Angela's non-combative power would never be needed on the field.<br />
:{{plus}} However, Peter was not familiar with using his powers by thinking about someone, and he was not aware his mother had powers.<br>{{minus}}He was also not aware that Claire had any powers. He almost certainly suspected that she did, but he had no way of knowing what they were.<br>{{plus}}However, the incident in ''[[Homecoming]]'' occurred before Peter was able to recall powers when their originators were not present, which could explain why he did not exhibit his mother's powers of healing (if she has any).
{{Minus}} After she is beaten up by an unknown enemy in [[Lizards]], her wounds dont immediately heal.
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| [[Angela Petrelli]] is [[Matt Parkman]]'s birth mother. || None || {{plus}} Matt's mother is only mentioned in passing, when Matt accuses [[Maury]] of abandoning them, but never named.<br />
| Angela may be clairvoyant. || None. || Angela's evasive answer to [[Claire]] indicates she may have a power. (''[[.07%]]'')<br>{{note}}When Nathan had his accident, Peter somehow knew about it the moment it happened. Since Peter's abilities are derived from people he knows or has met, he may have been tapping into her clairvoyance.
{{plus}} Maury would have no reason to stay with the woman who is not the mother of his son.<br />
:{{minus}}Peter had a dream; it is more likely that his empathy connected with Nathan and he saw the accident through his point of view. He even mentions that he was connected with his brother, and explains to his mother how he was connected -- "No, I'm saying before the call. Like he was telling me, 300 miles away. I woke up, and I knew that he'd been hurt." (''[[Genesis]]'')
{{plus}} There is a significant age gap between [[Nathan]] and his brother [[Peter]].<br>
<br>{{plus}} [http://www.tvguide.com/News-Views/Columnists/Ask-Ausiello/default.aspx?posting=%7BA0808CD2-D6D2-4774-A36E-F6CA4DCC6BA9%7D Ask Ausiello revealed] that Angela has a power that is "very similar to a power possessed by another hero, only in her case, it takes a lot less effort to get from Point A to Point B." To get from Point A to B is a way to say 'to get from start to finish, or to the end result'. Angela Petrelli's power could be a simpler version of [[Isaac Mendez]]' power - the effort reduced is the fact that she doesn't need to paint to see the future (the end result of Isaac' power).
{{plus}} There is a passing resemblance between Matt, Nathan, and Peter.<br />
{{minus}} The timeline of events according to [[graphic novel]], [[War Buddies]] places [[Arthur]] and [[Linderman]] in Vietnam at the time of Matt's birth, before the [[Group of Twelve]] is formed and presumably, Maury and Angela had yet to meet. <br />
{{plus}} Arthur's absence at this time allows Angela to carry a child to term leaving Arthur none the wiser.<br />
{{plus}} Angela knows how to fight Matt's telepathic probing in [[Cautionary Tales]]. This means she likely has fought off another telepath, like Maury.<br />
:{{minus}} Angela has had much experience from Arthur's own probing.<br />
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| [[Angela]] is mother of [[Isaac Mendez]]. || None || {{note}} Isaac's mother is unknown, they both share a similar power (precognition), they both live in New York, [[Carlos Mendez]] was one of [[the Company's founders]]. [[Peter]] hated [[Isaac]] which would be a connection.<br />
{{minus}} The Petrelli family would have noticed Angela being pregnant, since Isaac was younger than [[Nathan]].<br />
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| Angela was romantically involved with Victoria Pratt. || None || {{plus}} Victoria had no husband or children.<br />
| Angela has the as-yet unexplained power of transportation. || None.|| {{plus}} Angela's evasive answer to [[Claire]] indicates she may have a power. (''[[.07%]]'')<br>{{plus}} She has possibly referred to the aspect of mental transportation by: 1) knowing Claire spit up bullets, 2) knowing about Peter and Nathan's powers before they did.<br>{{plus}} She has possibly referred to the aspect of physical transportation by: 1) talking about "taking Claire" to Paris. 2) [http://www.tvguide.com/News-Views/Columnists/Ask-Ausiello/default.aspx?posting=%7BA0808CD2-D6D2-4774-A36E-F6CA4DCC6BA9%7D Ask Ausiello revealed] that Angela has a power that is "very similar to a power possessed by another hero, only in her case, it takes a lot less effort to get from Point A to Point B." One interpretation is that it is a physical transportation power of getting from A to B, like Hiro's teleportation.<br>{{note}} Transportation could have both mental and physical applications, therefore allowing Angela to mentally transport into the minds/memories/dreams of others, as well as to physically transport from location to location similar to [[telekinesis]]. It could also be something along the lines of astral projection.<br>{{plus}} She implies that though it didn't seem like she was there for Claire, she was there in ways she might not understand.
:{{minus}} Neither did [[Linderman]].<br />
:{{note}} It seems more likely that she was referring to how she was watching over Claire from a distance, such as by ordering the Haitian not to wipe her memory.
{{plus}} Angela was highly protective of Victoria's secrets. She thought Victoria's private life and whereabouts were none of Matt Parkman's business, perhaps because she and Victoria were involved.<br />
:{{minus}} Matt wasn't a Company founder, but Angela was. The Company founders knew where to look for each other for case they needed to contact.<br />
{{plus}} Victoria preferred solitude and distanced herself from the other founders, yet Angela knew where to find her. Perhaps after Arthur, she sought companionship. It would explain how she knew about her children.<br />
:{{minus}} [[Adam]] knew about Victoria's whereabouts as well. Does that imply he slept with her? Besides, they were the Company founders.<br />
:{{minus}} Sure the Company knew everything about the children of its founders.<br />
{{plus}} Angela had been involved with Kaito and possibly Charles Deveaux as indicated in 1961, it is not inconceivable she was with Victoria.<br />
:{{minus}} A single dance doesn't count as a romance, and nothing suggests Angela at least danced with Victoria.<br />
{{minus}} There is no proof Angela is bisexual.<br />
{{plus}} Angela seemed close to her friend, Millie.<br />
:{{minus}} There is no proof they were more than friends. And even if they were more than friends, it doesn't mean that there was ever a relationship between her and Victoria, or even that Victoria was gay.<br />
:{{minus}} If a woman has a female friend, does that mean they are lesbians?<br />
{{plus}} When Heidi was at the hospital in Four Months Ago, Angela caressed her hair and appeared to be sexually threatening her.<br />
:{{minus}} Angela wasn't threatening Heidi at all, she was manipulating her.<br />
:{{plus}} We've known Angela for a long long time now, we just found out that she has a sister, why not finding out she had a bisexual relationship with Victoria?<br />
::{{minus}} Because it's unneeded.<br />
:::{{plus}} With all the claims of homophobia regard Heroes due to Zach and April?<br />
::::{{note}} Zach is NOT gay.<br />
:::::{{note}} He was supposed to be, but the producers of Sarah Connor Chronicles said no.<br />
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| Angela is constantly seeing the future through her left eye. || None. || {{plus}}Her left eye seems contracted and looks likes it is looking at something else (''[[The Hard Part]]'').
| Angela's possible relationship with Victoria and Kaito happened after Arthur's death. || None || {{plus}} Angela seemed to love her husband a great deal.<br />
{{plus}} Her anger towards him occurred after she found out what he was.<br />
:{{minus}} This might just be a physical feature of [[Cristine Rose|the actress]].
{{minus}} He was only believed to be dead for less than two years before the start of the first episode. She said she hadn't slept with Kaito for a long time.<br />
:{{minus}} Arthur "died" in the flashback to six months ago in the first Season. Nathan shows up on Peter's doorstep and tells him that "dad died of a heart attack this morning."<br />
{{plus}} Kaito was devoted to his wife, why would he risk Arthur's wrath and her pain by sleeping with Angela?<br />
{{plus}} Grief is a powerful motivator. Losing their spouses could have caused them to look elsewhere.<br />
{{plus}} Regarding Victoria see points above.<br />
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| Angela has the power to hypnotize with a touch. || None. || {{plus}} When trying to convince Nathan to just let the explosion happen, she places her hands on his back. Moments later, he is agreeing with her, saying variations of exactly what she said. Later, when Peter reads Nathan's mind, he is thinking the same thing ("It can't be stopped.") over and over again.
| Angela sided with Linderman over NY because of the other possible futures. || None || {{plus}} The future of the explosion future only killed a few million people, the outbreak future killed around 93% of the worlds population and the exposed future caused the world to break apart.<br />
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| Angela didn't love Arthur. || None || {{plus}} She cheated on him with Kaito.<br />
| Angela has the [[power]] to see the past first hand. || None.|| {{plus}} She says to Claire that she can spit out bullets. Unless she could see the past, she wouldn't have been able to know that.<br>{{minus}} The Haitian may have informed her of what happened to Claire.<br>{{plus}} Peter's dream of the past may have been him mimicking her power. (''[[How To Stop An Exploding Man]]'')
{{plus}} When Angela discovered that he is, in fact, alive, her demeanor was one of surprise and fear, rather than any sort of relief or joy.<br />
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:{{minus}} That's because the last time she saw him, she'd tried to kill him (and thought she'd succeeded).<br />
| Angela Petrelli is the mother of Hiro Nakamura ||None.||{{plus}} She Said She had a relationship with Kaito.<br>{{note}}Angela’s Powers MAY have to do with getting from point A to point B and so do Hiro’s
{{minus}} On the contrary, Angela seemed to love Arthur very much. (''[[Villains]]'')<br />
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:{{plus}} It is possible she fell out of love with him after she learned that he tried to kill their son.<br />
| Angela is the [[hooded killer]]. || None. || {{plus}} If Angela has the power of teletransportation or astral projection, then she could have pushed Hiro's father, and in the middle of the fall, teleport to safety or end the projection. This could be why there is only Kaito's body when Ando looks down. <br>{{plus}} Kaito said that the hooded killer was the last person he expected, and Kaito had a conversation with Angela just minutes ago. Angela could have gone there to kill Kaito the first time, but postponed the plan because Ando was there.<br>{{plus}} Nathan says that she is evil. <br>{{plus}} She received the same death threat that Kaito received; maybe she killed Kaito to "save her skin" and maybe she gave herself the death threat to appear innocent.
{{minus}} She refers to him as "the man [she] loved".<br />
:{{minus}} When she saw the picture on the wall, she was shocked and worried. Why would she pretend to do so when she's alone in the hallway?. <br> {{minus}} The body structure of the [[hooded killer]] was completely different from [[Angela]]'s body, it dosen't make any sense that [[Angela]] was the same person who pushed [[Kaito]] from the roof.
:{{note}} It's possible that her use of the past tense wasn't referring to the fact that he was dead, but implying that she had fallen out of love with him by the time of his death.<br />
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| Angela has the power of memory restoration. || None. || {{plus}} When [[Angela]] told [[Peter]] that he has to remember, he did so very quickly and accurately. He had been trying hard before but could not.
:{{minus}} It is more likely that Peter read Angela's memories of being Peter's mother, and thus learned who she was; the theme sound for Matt's telepathy was also playing in the background at the time.
{{minus}} Peter did not regain his memories beyond finding out that Angela was his mother; he did not know he had a brother, and he did not recognise Adam.
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|Angela has the power of creating illusions (Like [[Candice]]). || [[Nathan]]'s face actually is all deformed and whatnot but Angela is creating an illusion for everyone else || {{plus}} [[Nathan]] looks normal to everyone else but in his reflection he is sometimes deformed (perhaps it's the truth catching up on him?)
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| Angela has persuasion (like [[Eden]]). || In '[[Out of Time]]' Angela tells [[Peter]] to remember who he is. Soon, he begins to remember Angela and finally realizes that she is his mother.|| {{plus}} In '[[The Kindness of Strangers]]' Angela was able to convince the police, except [[Matt]], that she was the one who killed Kaito Nakamura.<br>
:{{minus}} Eden was able to convince Matt to eat donuts. If Angela has the same power as Eden, she would have been able to convince Matt that she was the killer.<Br> {{plus}} In '[[Out of Time]]' Angela forced Peter to remember when he could not.
:{{minus}} It is more likely that Peter read Angela's memories of being Peter's mother, and thus learned who she was; the theme sound for Matt's telepathy was also playing in the background at the time.
{{minus}} Peter did not regain his memories beyond finding out that Angela was his mother; he did not know he had a brother, and he did not recognise Adam.
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| Angela and Adam are Nathan's true parents.
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|| {{plus}} All related characters have powers that are somewhat similar to their parents. For example, [[Matt]] and [[Maury Parkman]]. If Angela is an empath (as theorized above), [[Peter]] has special power empath abilities allowing him to absorb others' powers. Clair's power of regeneration possibly come from Adam (if it's a recessive gene). Nathan's power must come from Angela's side in an unexplained way.
:{{minus}}It's not true that all related characters have related powers. There was no example of this until Maury Parkman was introduced. For example, Niki has enhanced strength and D.L. could [[phasing|phase]], but they produced a child with [[technopathy]] (Micah).
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Angela and Adam are Nathan's true parents. None • Nathan could easily be thirty (he, or Sylar posing as him, was President in Five Years Gone and without laws changing one must be thirty-five to become President).
• Although it's implied that Nathan will become President through the death of the current President, if he's not 35, he would be ineligible and the Presidency would pass down the line of succession.

- Arthur bears a strong family resemblance to Nathan, strongly implying a close biological relationship between the two.
- War Buddies, Part 5 implies that Nathan was born before Arthur and Angela ever met Adam.

The agents of the Company do not realize that Angela has a power. None + When Noah returns to help find the Level 5 escapees, he states that he needs a partner, saying "You know how it works: One of us, one of them." Angela responds with "I have the perfect one of them in mind."
- She was speaking of field agents in general. HRG is "one of us" (the non-powered agents), Sylar is "one of them" (evolved human agents).

• Angela is one of the company's founders and presumably keeps a low profile.
• Angela's non-combative power would never be needed on the field.

Angela Petrelli is Matt Parkman's birth mother. None + Matt's mother is only mentioned in passing, when Matt accuses Maury of abandoning them, but never named.

+ Maury would have no reason to stay with the woman who is not the mother of his son.
+ There is a significant age gap between Nathan and his brother Peter.
+ There is a passing resemblance between Matt, Nathan, and Peter.
- The timeline of events according to graphic novel, War Buddies places Arthur and Linderman in Vietnam at the time of Matt's birth, before the Group of Twelve is formed and presumably, Maury and Angela had yet to meet.
+ Arthur's absence at this time allows Angela to carry a child to term leaving Arthur none the wiser.
+ Angela knows how to fight Matt's telepathic probing in Cautionary Tales. This means she likely has fought off another telepath, like Maury.

- Angela has had much experience from Arthur's own probing.
Angela is mother of Isaac Mendez. None • Isaac's mother is unknown, they both share a similar power (precognition), they both live in New York, Carlos Mendez was one of the Company's founders. Peter hated Isaac which would be a connection.

- The Petrelli family would have noticed Angela being pregnant, since Isaac was younger than Nathan.

Angela was romantically involved with Victoria Pratt. None + Victoria had no husband or children.
- Neither did Linderman.

+ Angela was highly protective of Victoria's secrets. She thought Victoria's private life and whereabouts were none of Matt Parkman's business, perhaps because she and Victoria were involved.

- Matt wasn't a Company founder, but Angela was. The Company founders knew where to look for each other for case they needed to contact.

+ Victoria preferred solitude and distanced herself from the other founders, yet Angela knew where to find her. Perhaps after Arthur, she sought companionship. It would explain how she knew about her children.

- Adam knew about Victoria's whereabouts as well. Does that imply he slept with her? Besides, they were the Company founders.
- Sure the Company knew everything about the children of its founders.

+ Angela had been involved with Kaito and possibly Charles Deveaux as indicated in 1961, it is not inconceivable she was with Victoria.

- A single dance doesn't count as a romance, and nothing suggests Angela at least danced with Victoria.

- There is no proof Angela is bisexual.
+ Angela seemed close to her friend, Millie.

- There is no proof they were more than friends. And even if they were more than friends, it doesn't mean that there was ever a relationship between her and Victoria, or even that Victoria was gay.
- If a woman has a female friend, does that mean they are lesbians?

+ When Heidi was at the hospital in Four Months Ago, Angela caressed her hair and appeared to be sexually threatening her.

- Angela wasn't threatening Heidi at all, she was manipulating her.
+ We've known Angela for a long long time now, we just found out that she has a sister, why not finding out she had a bisexual relationship with Victoria?
- Because it's unneeded.
+ With all the claims of homophobia regard Heroes due to Zach and April?
• Zach is NOT gay.
• He was supposed to be, but the producers of Sarah Connor Chronicles said no.
Angela's possible relationship with Victoria and Kaito happened after Arthur's death. None + Angela seemed to love her husband a great deal.

+ Her anger towards him occurred after she found out what he was.
- He was only believed to be dead for less than two years before the start of the first episode. She said she hadn't slept with Kaito for a long time.

- Arthur "died" in the flashback to six months ago in the first Season. Nathan shows up on Peter's doorstep and tells him that "dad died of a heart attack this morning."

+ Kaito was devoted to his wife, why would he risk Arthur's wrath and her pain by sleeping with Angela?
+ Grief is a powerful motivator. Losing their spouses could have caused them to look elsewhere.
+ Regarding Victoria see points above.

Angela sided with Linderman over NY because of the other possible futures. None + The future of the explosion future only killed a few million people, the outbreak future killed around 93% of the worlds population and the exposed future caused the world to break apart.
Angela didn't love Arthur. None + She cheated on him with Kaito.

+ When Angela discovered that he is, in fact, alive, her demeanor was one of surprise and fear, rather than any sort of relief or joy.

- That's because the last time she saw him, she'd tried to kill him (and thought she'd succeeded).

- On the contrary, Angela seemed to love Arthur very much. (Villains)

+ It is possible she fell out of love with him after she learned that he tried to kill their son.

- She refers to him as "the man [she] loved".

• It's possible that her use of the past tense wasn't referring to the fact that he was dead, but implying that she had fallen out of love with him by the time of his death.


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