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Theory	Citations	Notes
Future Daphne is the new timeline's version of the agent from Walls.	None.	+ When the explosion future was changed, it could have changed who made the agent ranks. - Future Daphne works for Pinehearst; the other agent works for the Department of Homeland Security. + Both organizations hunt down evolved humans in the future. + The altering of the future could have changed to whom the ability of super speed would go to. - Daphne had already manifested super speed when Hiro and Ando started altering the future. - The agent and Daphne are of different races, so altering the future is unlikely to change any issues in regards to inheritance of the ability. + Altering the future could have prevented a condition that enabled the original agent to develop her ability.
If Daphne charged into someone at super speed, they would die.	None.	+ The force of her hitting them would be similar to that of a bullet. - Daphne is not made of metal like a bullet. - Think of it this way: If you fell out of a helicopter and managed to land on a person on the ground with speeds similar to Daphne's speed... would you survive? - Matt created an illusion of her hitting Knox while traveling at super speed, and only she was hurt. + Knox has super strength. + The purpose of the illusion was to make Knox think he had killed them. • She would also die or at least get seriously injured. • Her ability could be similar to others we've seen, where she's physically able to take more than the normal person to help with her ability, i.e., Meredith is able to hold fire without being burned and breathe in a room deprived of oxygen from fire.
Daphne is able to run on water.	A general consensus with super speed, as seen in many other medias and texts.	+ She runs very fast. + The surface tension of the water may allow her to run across it. + She traveled from France to New York without an apparent vehicle.
Daphne's spirit animal is the rabbit.	None.	+ Matt's spirit animal is the turtle, so the rabbit could serve as a foil to that in a "tortoise and hare" way. + She is fast, like a rabbit.
Daphne's power imparts some extra strength.	She can carry at least two grown people with her while moving at super-speed.	+ She carries Matt Parkman and Ando with her to the bike messenger station in Manhattan, presumably all the way from Lawrence, KS. (Our Father) - She isn't seen putting Matt or Ando down after arriving at the messenger station. Rather, it seems that they just ran alongside. It could be that she simply imparts super-speed to anybody that she's touching when she uses it. + She also carried Flint when she broke him out of Level Five. (Dying of the Light") + She visibly carried Samir Mellouk in Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, Part 1.
Daphne should of been stuck 16 years in the past when she rescued Hiro.	None.	+ She has no known powers to travel into the future. - In the frames of the Ability supercharging from Ando she did end up with the ability to travel through time. • The "frames"? + It was mentioned in the show that she may be able to travel to the past by going faster than the speed of light, which it appears she may have done. However, to get back to the present day (traveling into the future of where she and Hiro were), traveling faster than light would not have worked to get them back. Something else had to have been done. - Ando came with Daphne. He could have supercharged her again. + Supercharging her again would allow her to run faster than the speed of light. Running faster than the speed of light only allows one to go backward through time, as she did to get to Hiro in the first place. Running faster than light would just take them further into the past. - Maybe it did, but Daphne could have learned how to travel back to the future. + Using what power? She has no known power to slow time down for herself and whoever she is touching, in order to get back to the future. - And who said that running faster than light can bring a person only back in time, not forward? This kind of time traveling isn't understood well for now. Everything is possible, unless it is proved or otherwise. + Traveling faster than the speed of light is a well-known theoretical method of traveling back in time (special relativity), while moving faster than the speed of light is not a theory for moving forward in time. Special relativity is most likely what Matt was referring to when he explained how Daphne may have been able to time travel. - Perhaps she discovered she has said power. - According to special relativity, traveling very fast but not exceeding the speed of light will move you forward through time (the frame of reference for them would slow relative to earth's frame of reference). This part of special relativity is actually well accepted (and tested via atomic clocks). Going backwards by exceeding the speed of light is probably in reality impossible, but still theoretically plausible. Thus Daphne, Hiro, and Ando could go forwards through time by approaching the speed of light without passing it.
Daphne's power is similar to Hiro's and allows her to alter her personal timeframe (plus that of anything or anyone she is holding). She hasn't learned to use it unless she is running.	She is able to travel backwards and forwards in time. She moves faster than sound without a sonic boom.	+ With Ando's power boost she was able to speed her timeframe to such an extent the universe's timeframe was reversed. + She also may have been able to slow her timeframe and allow 16 years to pass without experiencing it. - Daphne was unable to walk when the eclipse occurred, which means that her ability is connected with her muscles. + She might have superspeed (which effects her muscles) as a byproduct, similar to Santiago. - If that was the case, Hiro would have superspeed as well. + Has Hiro ever tried to access it? As far as we know you have to think about using Superspeed and Space-time manipulation to use them. - Hiro has slowed down time in season one, when he couldn't use his powers well; he tried to stop time, but only managed to slow time down, which would make it seem he has superspeed from the perspective of those who were slowed down in time, but it's still not superspeed. + Hiro can travel at the speed of light, which means he has superspeed that is faster than Daphne's. - Hiro's ability works by folding time and space; he doesn't run or accelerate himself to use his ability. • When Daphne touched Ando she wasn't running but still time traveled. • She did move. Matt wasn't using his ability when he touched Ando; the supercharging activated his ability against his will. The same happened with Daphne; she moved while having her ability activated against her will. • By that logic, if Monica were supercharged by Ando when she's not using her power but moving, than she would do random flips and kicks. • Nope, the nature of her ability is different than Daphne's, whose ability has conscious triggers, Monica's has both conscious and unconscious triggers. + Hiro's abilty may actually be him speeding up his molecules to the speed of light to travel through time, while he used the same method to teleport approaching the speed of light while not exceeding it. Then Hiro's ability would be like supercharged super speed. • Then "space-time manipulation" wouldn't be a good name for Hiro's ability. • It would still allow space-time manipulation. When he stops time he most likely moves as fast as light, though no one has ever gone at the speed of light so you can't be 100% sure. - The two abilities only exhibit similar effects under certain circumstances.