Theory:Shattering

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Theory	Citations	Notes
Trevor's ability worked by sculpting air into a solid form, and then firing it at a target.	None	+ It seems plausible. + This may explain why it only affects fragile objects. • Just because we only saw him blow up glasses doesn't mean he could only affect glass objects. See below for more details on that. • It was stated in a BTE interview that it only affects glass. • It was said that it affects glass, not that it only affects glass. - This would rather result in pushing glasses, not breaking them. • It depends on how fast the air was fired, and how dense the "sculpting" made it.
Trevor's ability was related to telekinesis.	None	+ Telekinesis allows the user to move objects at a distance; Trevor was able to destroy objects at a distance. + Neither ability has any visible sign other than its effects. - Trevor's ability seemed to exclusively affect glass, there is no reason why telekinesis would be limited to glass. • An ability which only affects glass would be utterly useless. It would not be advantageous for the organism which developed. + There are other pretty useless abilities like luminescence or chlorine gas exudation. - The ability to spew toxic gas at your enemies would be extremely useful. - One of the oldest methods of getting the upper hand in combat is to somehow screw up your opponent's ability to see (via a thrown handful of sand, facing so the sun is behind you, etc). + Both were seen used offensively. - BTE said Sylar didn't use Trevor's ability much, perhaps because it is useless. • An ability is only useless if the evolved human doesn't bother developing it. Sylar had telekinesis, a much more versatile ability, which can in theory have similar effects to this ability. • Evolution throws out random mutations regardless of whether it is useless or not. Its "usefulness factor" only determines whether it remains with the species. • We only ever saw him blow up glass. By that logic, levitation is useful only against large, round boulders and square, chiseled blocks of stone. • In a BTE interview, it was stated that Trevor's ability was pointing your finger and making glasses explode. • It didn't say making glass explode was the only thing it could do, there might be other things it does that Sylar doesn't know. Until Arthur told him, he didn't know he could acquire abilities without examining the brain. • Due to his intuitive aptitude Sylar knows all there is to a power. The only reason he didn't know that he could absorb abilities through empathy was because he never observed his own brain. • Intuitive aptitude is extremely potent, but not omniscient. Sylar may not have known about its full potential. Also, if his ultimate goal is to procure more powers, then using an ability that could potentially turn a special's brain into a thin layer of goo laminated over the walls, floor, and ceiling would be very stupid. It is more efficient for him to open people's skulls. • Sylar's mastery over powers is most likely related to his intuitive aptitude, Brian Davis could barely push a cup across a table while Gabriel was able to pin a man to a wall and slice his skull open, only a few short weeks after acquiring telekinesis. He would most likely know a basic fact about an ability, like whether Trevor's ability only affected glass. • Sylar did not kill evolved humans exclusively. When Audrey chased him out of the FBI building, he chose to telekinetically manipulate her into pointing her gun at her head, something that she was able to resist and something that ultimately prevented him from killing her. If he could have simply "blasted" her head off, he would have. • Sylar likes to torture people, perhaps making her shoot herself was more amusing to him. • There's a time and a place, Sylar was fleeing from the FBI. He most likely wouldn't have stopped to torture her unless it was the only method available to him. • If the writers had let Sylar use that ability, then both Matt and Audrey would have been killed, thus derailing the story line of Season One. • Which makes it all the more likely that they wouldn't give him such an ability. • When Villains was in the making they intended to show Sylar acquiring an ability he was known to possess, but in the heat of things, they just gave him that ability. • Electric manipulation can be used to levitate, Sylar doesn't seem to know about that. • Sylar didn't examine Elle's brain, he absorbed her ability through empathy. As shown with his initial experience with electric manipulation and shape shifting, he has less control over abilities absorbed through empathy then those he takes with his original method. Since he took Trevor's ability with his original method, he is aware of all of its functions. • Sylar took enhanced hearing with intuitive aptitude, yet it took him a while to control it as well. • There is a difference between learning how to control an ability and knowing all of the functions of an ability. • Sylar can fly, and can levitate with telekinesis, even if electric manipulation can be used to levitate, he has no use for it. This may be why he was never shown doing it, even if he was aware of it.