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:{{minus}} Peter automatically absorbed Ted's [[Induced radioactivity]]. ([[The Hard Part]])<br /> |
:{{minus}} Peter automatically absorbed Ted's [[Induced radioactivity]]. ([[The Hard Part]])<br /> |
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::{{plus}} Ted could constantly be putting out TRACE about of radioactivity. <br /> |
::{{plus}} Ted could constantly be putting out TRACE about of radioactivity. <br /> |
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{{plus}} Peter does not have [[Clairvoyance]]. |
{{plus}} Peter does not have [[Clairvoyance]]. Peter has been near Molly ([[How to Stop an Exploding Man]]) but did not absorb her power. We know he did not absorb it because Molly uses her power just by thinking about someone. Yet when Peter thinks about someone he does not know where they are. <br /> |
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:{{plus}} Peter does not know where Nathan is when he is in the company's jail cell, but he does thinks about Nathan. [[Four Months Ago...]] |
:{{plus}} Peter does not know where Nathan is when he is in the company's jail cell, but he does thinks about Nathan. ([[Four Months Ago...]]) |
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:{{plus}} [[Clairvoyance]] is NOT activated when Peter looks at the picture of Nathan and Adam tells him to remember. [[Four Months Ago...]] |
:{{plus}} [[Clairvoyance]] is NOT activated when Peter looks at the picture of Nathan and Adam tells him to remember. ([[Four Months Ago...]]) |
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The following fan theories are about Peter Petrelli.
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Theories
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| Peter can not obtain the the Haitian's power because the Haitian will block Peter's innate ability of empathy before Peter can use it. | None. | + Peter has not displayed the Haitian's ability. - Surely it is just as likely the act of having the Haitian remove his memories allowed Peter to absorb the Haitian's abilities - memory/mind manipulation on self as well as others. |
| Peter used astral projection during How To Stop An Exploding Man while visiting Charles Deveaux. | None. | + During an interview, it was stated that Angela Petrelli's power involved getting from point a to b very quickly. Astral projection would allow for that, and because Angela is Peter's mother, Peter could have absorbed her ability at any point in his life. • If Peter was using astral projection in his "dream", then it would be assumed that he was also incorporating other simultaneously, and that has neither been confirmed or denied. For one, Peter was in the past, so space/time manipulation may have been in use. Second, Peter appeared invisible to everyone but Charles. Finally, astral projection would give Peter the means of being in more than one place at the same time.
- It's possible that Charles Deveaux had the ability of invisibility, or Peter's ability, and thus would be able to see Peter, if Peter had physically traveled in time back to that point.
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| Peter has some unknown additional power that is or causes these dreams and blackouts. | None. | - According to the writers, each character has only one innate power. + The dreams could come from another person whose ability Peter absorbed without realizing it. |
| Peter's dreams come from his mimicking his mother's power. | None. | + Since it looks like the first ability he has mimicked, it would have to be from someone that is always around him. Angela would fit the bill. + At the end of Fallout he has one of these dreams. At that time he has only met a few other evolved humans. Of those Angela and Charles Deveaux are the only ones who remain on the list of "Powers:Unknown".
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| Peter's dreams come from mimicking the powers of Charles Deveaux. | See Theory:Charles_Deveaux | + Peter was getting prophetic dreams before he encountered many others. He shared a "goodbye dream" with Charles, where Peter showed him he could fly. (Nothing to Hide)
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| Peter's prophetic dreams come from his empathy mixing with Isaac's power. | None. | + Before meeting Isaac, Peter's dreams were limited to sensing the feelings of people Peter was close to, such as Nathan and Charles Deveaux. After meeting Isaac, Peter began to dream of people he had yet to meet. - Peter's dreams had premonition qualities before he met Isaac. |
| Peter can share his duplicated powers with non-powered people, through an empathic connection. | None. | - Simone would not be dead if this was the case. + In Landslide, Peter grabs Claire and is able to render her invisible, despite her not having that ability.
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| Peter's vision of himself exploding may not be a prophecy; it may be form of empathic communication, like some of his other dream experiences seem to be. | His dream about Charles Deveaux was not prophetic. (Nothing to Hide) His dream about Nathan and Heidi's accident occurred at the same time Peter was asleep. (Six Months Ago) | + If so, Peter is wrong to think he will be the cause of the explosion. - In Godsend, more of Peter's vision is seen, including scenes with Claude laughing while stealing money. These portions of Peter's vision, at least, have definitely proven to be prophetic. |
| Peter mimicked the power of suggestion from Eden McCain. | While Peter visited Mohinder Suresh's apartment while Eden McCain was present, there is no indication that he duplicated her suggestion power. However, they were in the same room for some time, even coming in physical contact with each other. (Collision) | + Eden could use her power at her discretion; it's possible Peter duplicated it and simply didn't know how to activate it. + Additionally, the fact that Peter was able to convince Mohinder to visit Isaac, but later fail to do it again may suggest that Peter tapped into Eden's power, but later did not.
+ Peter seemed immune to Parkman's suggestions in Powerless. |
| Peter absorbs personalities as well as powers as a result of having to "feel" another person's presence in order for absorption. | None. | + In his fight with Isaac, Peter displays an "evil", aggressive nature to him when he uses his telekinetic abilities, which likens to that of Sylar. Peter, being empathetic, needs to experience another person's "essence" in order to use their abilities. Being around Sylar invoked fear and chaos, so using Sylar's powers would inevitably cause Peter to have violent tendencies. - Peter, when stopping Claude's broomstick or dropping the taser gun's darts, did not have a violent outburst.
+ In Kindred, after Peter pinned Will to the wall, he tells Caitlin that he wanted to kill him. This reflects Elle's personality. |
| Peter can mimic non-superhuman abilities of others. | None. | + Peter initially seemed only able to draw stick figures, but is able to paint similarly to Isaac when close to him.
- In How to Stop an Exploding Man, when Sylar uses Isaac's power he sees the event on the canvas in the form of a picture already - the painting takes no exceptional skill, it is just tracing the lines and filling in the colors. |
| Peter Petrelli has absorbed all of Sylar's obtained abilities. | None. | + In an interview with the show's creators and writers, they stated that Peter has absorbed all of Sylar's abilities. • He is probably unaware of these powers because he has to concentrate on a power to use it and he does not know what powers Sylar has stolen apart from telekinesis, liquefaction, and radiation. |
| In the original timeline (Nov 8, 2007), Peter Petrelli mimicked density manipulation from one of the Moab prison ambush agents. | Graphic Novel snapshot: |
+ In Walls, Part 2, everyone is accounted for except for Peter and the agent with enhanced speed. + The agent looks to be stepping backwards (not running), and the silhouette for Peter resembles the image of the larger ambush agent. |
| Peter Petrelli's name is a reference to the many Marvel characters having first and last names that begin with the same letter. | None. | + Many of the Marvel comics characters have names beginning with the same letter (e.g. Peter Parker, Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Matt Murdock, Scott Summers, Warren Worthington, Bruce Banner, Stephen Strange).
+ The show's writers have referenced popular culture with other character names: Claude Rains is a reference to the original actor to play a character who was invisible. |
| Peter absorbed the power to heal from Linderman at some point in the past. | None. | + Linderman was in close contact with the Petrellis ever since War Buddies, and it is at least possible that he met Linderman at some point in his life, before the indictment. - Peter has never shown that he can use Linderman's power.
+ Since it seems to have taken Linderman years to perfect his power, Peter might not be skilled enough to use it, and if he can, not very well. |
| If Peter was able to tap into Sylar's intuitive aptitude he would instantly be able to use all the powers he absorbs. | None. | + Whenever Sylar takes a power he is almost instantaneously shown using the power he just absorbed even ones that took the original owner quite a while to gain control over (i.e. Isaac's Precognition). |
| If Peter has all of Sylar's powers and the powers of all he has come into contact with, its possible that he can only access them consciously if he is in the presence of that person when they are using their power. If they do not use their power, he will absorb it but only be able to access it subconsciously, though its more likely that regardless of interviews, that Peter really only absorbs powers when he is near as they are used. | None. | + Peter turns invisible without realizing when Claude walks by him invisible. + Claire's regeneration is constant and would have been healing when in Peter's presence in Odessa, thus he gains constant regeneration.
+ Peter does not fly until after Nathan flies. |
| Claude was right about how Peter can call back his powers. | Claude said that in order for Peter to use his mimicked powers without the original owner present he had to block them out. | + Because he doesn't remember anyone from his past, Peter has effectively "blocked them out". That being said, he can still use the powers that he has absorbed. • In a Behind the Eclipse interview, Joe Pokaski and Aron Coleite stated that "Peter has learned and will continue to learn that's it's more about his heart than his memory." |
| Peter no longer needs to remember someone to use a certain power. | None. | + Peter could not remember anything about himself and has no idea he got these powers yet he can still use them. • What Peter actually said is that he needed to remember how the people from whom he copied powers "made him feel". It's possible to recall the emotion without recalling the person. |
| Peter cannot use any abilities absorbed from Sylar except telekinesis. | None. | + Peter has not used any of Sylar's abilities except for telekinesis. + A Company scientist was unable to detect in Sylar the "codon switches" for any ability other than telekinesis. (Godsend). This may be why Sylar's other abilities cannot be absorbed.
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| Peter will seek out Hiro Nakamura's help in order to return to 2008 and rescue Caitlin. | None. | + While in 2008, Peter learned from his mother that his time travel ability was absorbed from Hiro. (Out of Time) + Also while in 2008, Peter was able to read his mother's mind and somehow recover his memories of her. (Out of Time). In the present day, he could use this ability with Adam, or other acquaintances, to regain memories of Hiro and how to find him. |
| Peter could have been able to use Charlie's enhanced memory through his contact with Sylar. | None. | + His mother told him to remember, and shortly after he appeared to remember all the moments that he spent with his mother in his entire life. (Out of Time) - Adam helped Peter remember who he was and how they got to Montreal by simply explaining his brain cells needed to heal. The instance in the future seems more along the lines of the same principle. |
| Someone wanted Peter to come into contact with Ricky's gang. | Ricky commented on the unlikeliness of Peter showing up in the one container that they were set to rob. (Lizards) | + Ricky and his gang specifically planned to break into one container out of the hundreds in the storage lot. It would be a ridiculous coincidence if Peter just happened to be in that container. + Peter's container was empty, but, according to Ricky, it was supposed to be filled with iPods. - Why would Elle kill Ricky if they were on the same side?
- The Haitian trapped Peter in a random container, it was just pure luck.
- Elle was looking for containers at the dock first. If she knew Ricky and his gang had him, she would have gone there first.
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| Peter exhibited a new use of his dream power by bringing back the evacuation notice in Truth and Consequences. | None. | + Peter has used this dream power before in connection with Charles Deveaux (see Theory:Charles Deveaux), however this time he brought back a physical object from that place/time. Thus, he is not just a astral projection, but can physically interact with that location. + This can not be an example of space-time manipulation because Adam does not see him "leave" his present location in the building in Montreal. In a sense, he is in two places at once.
• Adam heard Peter, but neither Caitlin nor the version of Peter with her seemed to hear Peter, which may indicate some sort of transcendent or dream-like state because he was apparently audible and physically present for Adam, but he obtained a flyer from the future and brought it back to the past with him. |
| Peter possesses some form of enhanced speed. | In Powerless, in the second it takes the Shanti virus vial to dramatically drop in slow motion and almost hit the floor, Peter manages to run a couple dozen feet and squeeze through the narrow vault door. | • This may simply be an inconsistency in the script. • Peter may have been using Hiro's power to slow down time.
• Peter may have used telekinesis to hold the vial in place.
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| The Haitian, by removing Peter's memories, may have irreversibly enabled Peter to access multiple powers at a single time. | In many recent episodes (Kindred, Truth and Consequences, Powerless, etc.), Peter has used multiple abilities at once. | - This could have initially been an ability to use all passive abilities (or a constant use of all passive abilities), because rapid cell regeneration, immunity to space-time freezing, and immunity to telepathic suggestion do not necessarily require the intent to use an ability.
• Peter was not able to recover his memory until Adam told him to use his ability.
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| Maarten will meet Peter. | Future Peter has the power of pyrokinesis. (Five Years Gone) | + There is no reason for Meredith to return to the show, but Maarten might still work for the Company (as Ivan still did). - Maarten has only had one appearance so far. |
| Peter will search for Nathan's assassin, which could lead him back to the Hartsdale Company facility in New York. | None. | + Angela Petrelli told someone on a cellphone, who is likely to be affiliated with the company, that they had "opened Pandora's Box", this could mean that she knows that Peter will eventually trace the assassin back to the company and possibly come to her for answers.
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| Peter's increased control of his powers is due to his having absorbed intuitive aptitude from Sylar. | None. | + Peter used to need to focus on a person in order to copy their power. Throughout Volume Two, he was able to access the superpowers of people he didn't remember while amnesic. + Peter was also able, not only to copy the powers of people he didn't remember, but also copy the powers of people he never saw using their power before.
+ Peter was previously able to copy only one power at a time. He is now able to use at least two at once, having continued to maintain a telekinetic grip on Will while healing the injuries he received from multiple bullet wounds. (Kindred) We know that Sylar is capable of using multiple powers at the same time. (Road Kill) |
| Peter can only use some powers to do whatever the "source" of it can do and if he encounters them when they have refined control of it, the ability he has is refined as well. | None. | + When Peter first met Matt Parkman in Fallout and absorbed his telepathy, he could only read minds as that's all Matt could do at that time while in Powerless, he may have gained the thought transmission / mind control aspect of that ability from meeting Matt near the vault. + Adam Monroe has refined control of his regenerative ability (due to approximately 350 years of experience), this stronger regenerative capability could've be absorbed by Peter when they meet in Four Months Later (once the "Haitian Pills" were out of his system). |
| If Peter gets within range of another version of himself, he will create a rift. | None. | + Peter could not go back to the Shanti Virus Future in Truth and Consequences, even though he strenuously tried. Adam was impressed by his retrieval of an evacuation notice, perhaps because he was unable to actually time travel. - Hiro came very close to his future incarnation, and nothing wrong happened.
+ Perhaps absorbing his own power would cause a paradox. |
| Peter has absorbed Candice's illusion ability, Micah's technopathy and Molly's clairvoyance. | He was quite close to them both during the final scene of "How To Stop An Exploding Man". | • Peter absorbed Phasing from D.L. by only being in the same general area. D.L. was sitting with Micah and Molly at the time. • Candice may have dragged Sylar away. |
| Peter gained his prophetic dreams/visions from Arthur Petrelli. | None |
+ We don't know who Peter copied that power from. |
| Peter will go insane. | None | + It has been suggested that the numerous alterations to Sylar's DNA has unbalanced his mind. The same might happen to Peter. |
| Peter is actually adopted, and is in fact Sylar's biological brother. | In Five Year's Gone Future Sylar says, "Brother verses brother, its almost Biblical." | + Peter and Sylar are often referred to as "two sides of the same coin," even by Tim Kring. - Virginia, Sylar's mother, does not have any known ability. This makes it unlikely that she mothered two evolved sons.
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| Sylar will convince Peter to become evil in Volume Three, before Peter kills Sylar. | None. | |
| Peter has absorbed the powers of people that were walking down the street, at stores and other public places near him, which could explain his mystery powers. | For some of the powers that Peter has exhibited, we don't know who or where they came from. | + This could explain why Peter has his dreams, as he may have acquired this ability without knowing it from someone in the street. - This would be a poor explanation by the writers, as many potentially exciting plot twists will no longer be able to occur, for example if the theory that Peter got his dreams from Charles was correct, then we could see an interesting plot development there. On the other hand, if Peter's dreams come from a random evolved human on the street, it does not allow for the same story line development. |
| Future Peter shoots Nathan. | None. | + On the Heroes season 2 dvd on bonus features, if you press pause on the script it says "BANG BANG, Future Peter shoots his own goddamn brother". Although this could be to throw people off. |
| Peter can only absorb others abilities if they are "used" in his presence. | None. | + Peter has not displayed any abilities that have not been used on him or near him.
+ Peter does not have Clairvoyance. Peter has been near Molly (How to Stop an Exploding Man) but did not absorb her power. We know he did not absorb it because Molly uses her power just by thinking about someone. Yet when Peter thinks about someone he does not know where they are.
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| See Also: 9 • Red • Time travel • Peter Petrelli | |||||||||