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Noah Gray is actually H.R.G. (Noah Bennet).	None.	+ HRG has no abilities, so he could inject himself one, only to find out he became younger and younger. - Sylar was interacting with Noah on an intimate, familial level that would not make sense if this was his work partner, eg making him waffles, turning into a nuclear bomb when he dies, and calling him son. + Noah Gray is blond. + When Peter went to the future, H.R.G. is nowhere to be found. - If Noah was HRG, future Claire wouldn't threaten to shoot him. • She might not know. • There is a possibility of somebody having age shifted HRG to a younger age and erasing his memory, giving Sylar a child that will take his hunger away. Far fetched, but possible. • Nothing suggests age shifing can be used on other people.
Angela was the reason for the birth of "Noah Gray".	In One of Us, One of Them, Angela states that she will "fix" his hunger.	+ Due to Angela's precognitive ability, she can see the future and thus know what will stop Sylar from giving in to his hunger. As Gabriel stated, in I Am Become Death, he does it for his son.
Noah is adopted.	None.	+ There is no evidence of Noah's mother.
Like his father, Noah was an evolved human.	Ability inheritance exists.	+ Power heredity exists in the Heroes universe. + Gabriel inherited intuitive aptitude from his father, setting a precedent for ability heredity in the Gray family.
Noah is the child of Maya and Sylar.	The sex between the two is implied at the end of Truth & Consequences.	+ She and Elle are the only two woman in the series to seem to have loved Sylar. - Noah Gray is as far as I can tell totally Caucasian and shows no sign of being from any other ethnicity. - It is highly doubtful that Maya would forgive Sylar for killing her brother. • Elle forgave Sylar for killing her father. • Elle was mentally unstable.
Noah would have been the son of Elle and Sylar.	Noah resembles both of them (he is blond, like Elle, and has brown eyes, like Sylar).	+ Noah is born sometime in 2007, since he is about four years old in 2011. - Pregnancy lasts for nine months, thus Noah would be born in 2008. While he definetely looked four years old. + So its impossible for him to be born, prematurely? • It could be a plot hole. - Elle is dead, and her body was cremated. • Noah Gray is born in an alternate future. + Greg Beeman talked about Elle on his blog saying, "There were potential storylines about pregnancies and babies…" This could mean the original intention was for Elle to be the mother of Noah.
Sylar and Claire Bennet will get together - briefly or permanently - resulting in Noah.	Noah resembles them both as well, with Claire's blond hair and Sylar's brown eyes.	+ In The Second Coming, Sylar tells Claire after he takes her power, "You're special... and I couldn't kill you, even if I wanted to", implying that he has fond feelings for her. - What about the fact that he cut her head open and tried to kill her? (Elle is an exception to this as she is certifiably insane) + He cut her head open to take her power, and was even kind enough to put it back when he was done. He never tried to kill Claire, only make her understand him. - His methods are certainly questionable and inappropriate. - Sylar has tried on multiple occasions to kill her or her dad. It's hardly doubtful HRG would be fine with the union of his 16 year old daughter with a 30 year old man, not to mention he already dislikes and has tried to kill Sylar. + Noah has also emotionally betrayed his daughter repeatedly. Even though they appear to be on good terms by episode I Am Sylar, what Noah has done will surely change Claire's value of his opinion. + They could get together, in the hunt for the evolved humans, helping each other. - It's still extremely unlikely, seeing that Claire jabbed a shard of glass in his skull and wants him dead for everything he's put her through. + Claire has forgiven a lot of people since then, including Eric Doyle. - Doyle has to do much more to get to Sylar's league. - Claire hates Sylar and she won't ever forgive him his crimes. - In the alternate future where everyone has powers, Sylar thinks that Peter and Nathan are his brothers, which would make Claire his niece. • Claire is Peter's biological niece, and they have a disturbing relationship with incestuous undertones, so the family relation would not necessarily affect Claire. • The only romantic undertones were those in the beginning, when Claire was subtlyflirting with him at her high school, before either one knew they were related. Since then, the only abnormal family tension between them was when Claire thanked him for saving her life, in which she was apparently overwhelmed by the idea that he was just like her. There is no Petrellicest. • It is possible that Sylar never new that Claire was Nathan's biological daughter. • When "I Am Become Death" aired, it could be the intent of the writers that Sylar really was biologically related to Claire. • When I Am Become Death aired, the storyline still had Arthur and Angela claiming to be Sylar's parents. + If Sylar marries Claire and it's that relationship that spawns Noah Gray, then Peter would be a brother.
Meredith would have been the mother of Noah.	None.	+ Meredith is one of several characters who fits the little bit of information we have. Of all the female characters, she had been hurt the least by Sylar. Also, with both of them working for the company, their paths may cross at some point. - When Sylar and Meredith met in the new timeline, he killed her. + This was part of his rampage from when he found out he wasn't a Petrelli.
Noah Gray existed only in the exposed future, which will not happen.	None.	+ It is unlikely that Noah is young enough to not be conceived yet at this point. + Elle is the only one Sylar had "intercourse" with in the whole volume and she is now dead. + The timeline disappeared because of the butterfly effects Peter created, after he went to visit the future. + Since Sylar was good in that future, Noah's mother should have had been Elle, who Sylar was briefly romantically involved with. Elle is dead, and Sylar is Nathan. There are no prerequisites for Noah to be born.
Noah Gray is actually Matthew Parkman, Matt Parkman's son.	None.	+ He is the right age. + Matt could believe that his son was lost to him (dead, abducted), and not realize Sylar is raising him as his own. + His light hair could turn darker as he ages. Many brunettes and redheads have blond hair as children. + Matthew's power may actually calm/cure Sylar's hunger, which is another reason he may take the child as his own. + Matt Parkman, Jr. does have the ability to turn things on and off, maybe he turned off the hunger and also activated Sylar's induced radioactivity and precognition, just like with Hiro.
Sylar could be Noah's mother.	Shapeshifters can change gender.	+ Shapeshifter Mystique in X-Men changed gender and is the father of Kurt, a.k.a. Nightcrawler. • That was the original plan, she's Kurt's mother, his father is a an ancient mutant.
Noah Gray's mother is Tracy Strauss.	None	+ Sylar thinks that he is Nathan and may recall romantic feelings upon meeting Tracy. - In the exposed future Nathan was alive and Sylar was Sylar. - Tracy definitely wouldn't want to be in a relationship with the man who sold her out to the government. + Elle forgave Sylar for killing her father; Tracy could forgive Nathan for selling her out to the government. • Since it was Danko who spoiled everything, not Nathan, Tracy may get back together with him - or rather with the man who poses as him. But nothing suggests they will have a child, especially the one who was seen in an averted future. Noah's fate isn't as certain as, for example, Matt Parkman, Jr.'s - Janice was pregnant in the present, so we knew baby Matt would be born. But Sylar hasn't conceived a child yet.
Noah is named after H.R.G. (Noah Bennet).	None.	+ Claire mentions that Sylar took everything away from her, possibly her father. • It isn't clear who she was talking to, it could be Peter as well as Sylar. + Sylar was Noah's old partner, he may have killed him or felt responsible for his death. • He didn't need to kill Noah to name his son after him. + Claire has access to Pinehearst files and since she referred to Sylar as her uncle, so maybe Sylar named his son Noah, after his lover's brother. - Noah Bennet isn't Elle's brother. + This theory would also be true if Noah Gray was an age shifted Noah Bennet, who may have began reaging from a baby. - According to Claire, her parents were dead (Resistance).