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Theory	Citations	Notes
If this power is used on Peter, his ability will be strong enough to absorb the Haitian's ability.	None.	+ Ando was able to send Daphne back in time. If this ability is strong enough to cause her to exceed the speed of light, it should be strong enough to allow absorption of any power. - Arthur displayed the Haitian's ability after stealing Peter's powers, and Peter had been exposed to the Haitian without him blocking Peter's abilities. + Arthur was using advanced telepathy, as shown in "Villains". Peter has yet to gain the Haitians power as it dampens Peters power of absorption without having to concentrate (which supercharged empathic mimicry would overpower). Arthur would have been able to negate Sylar's telekinesis and stop himself being killed, or at least be immune to the Haitian's powers if he had gained them off of Peter. • Peter has been in the Haitian's presence without him blocking Peter's abilities: when he and Noah tried to bag Peter and Claude, Peter was able to use his powers in the Haitian's presence, therefore, he was exposed to the Haitian's ability.
If this power is used on the Haitian, his ability will be strong enough to stop all powers within a city, and possibly knocking everyone out.	None.	+ Ando was able to allow Matt to hear the thoughts of everyone in the city. If this ability is strong enough to cause him to read everyones mind in a whole city, it should allow the Haitian to have the same coverage. - Ando my not be able to use his power near the Haitian. + The Haitian can chose whether to block an ability or not.
If this power is used on Sylar or Peter, they would be unstoppable.	Both are very powerful.	+ If either were to have that ability, the multiple abilities they could amplify would make them extremely powerful.
If this ability is used on freezing, it could result in the generation of a temperature of 0K, or absolute zero.	None.	+ If enough heat was removed from an object, it could become so cold that all subatomic movement would cease. + If this ability can make a person with sub-sonic speed move faster than light, it's reasonable to assume that it could amplify freezing by this degree.
This is not the same ability Ando displayed in the exposed future.	Although looking similar, they appear to have different effects.	+ The future has changed, so maybe the circumstances that made Ando get his ability are different, thus obtaining a different ability in each alternate timeline. - An evolved human's ability is based on their genetics, a change of a timeline wouldn't alter Ando's genetic fingerprint.
This ability works by increasing the adrenaline in one's system, and in evolved humans this alters their abilities.	Paulette stated that "if she used [her] power at 100%, it would kill him". After Sylar injected Meredith with a dosage of adrenaline her power increased uncontrollably. Mohinder stated "a person's abilities lies in their adrenal glands".	+ Ando may have very well knocked Hiro out in the future by overdosing his endocrine system.
Ando's ability has a byproduct of lightning.	Future Ando could release an apparently fatal blast of red lightning.	+ Accelerated probability has super speed as a byproduct ability. There is nothing to contradict that other abilities cannot also have byproducts. - There is nothing to indicate that the energy directed at Hiro was fatal. • Aside from Ando believing it would create an effective weapon, and when used knocking Hiro to the ground, motionless. There is no reason to assume he was dead, and he may have simply been unconscious.
Ando's ability is dangerous to people without abilities.	None.	+ In the present, Hiro has lost his powers. He may still be powerless in the future, when Ando uses his ability to attack -- and apparently kill -- Hiro. - He could have been helping Hiro, not attacking him.
If Ando's ability augments itself, it can cause a deadly ray.	In the Exposed Future we see Ando killing Hiro, with a red beam.	+ If it's in fact the same ability we see, in the present and in the future, then we see the ability in the future augmenting anything. This could create some kind of malfunction, causing the ability to be lethal. + The ability is in fact very powerful. It is powerful enough to make Daphne run through time. • If Ando amplifies an ability too much it could be possible for that person to overload and die or collapse from the overwhelming feel of their ability, e.g., Matt's telepathy being amplified too much could cause him to have a brain hemorrhage. - We do not know if Future Hiro was killed by Future Ando. Perhaps he was helping Hiro in some way.
Ando's ability will be the cause of world destruction.	None.	+ If Ando supercharges Peter's ability, then he would end up absorbing the abilities of a whole city. And as stated by Mohinder once, Peter is like a sponge; he's not just copying the ability, he's absorbing it. And this super absorption would make him end up like Kirby Plaza again, but this time it's not just the whole city, it's the whole world. - It's unlikely that there would be enough people with abilities in Peter's vicinity to cause him to explode, if this were to happen. + If Peter's ability is amplified, his mimicking range would increase a lot. Matt only touched Hiro for a moment and heard an entire city. If Peter held longer, his range could go beyond that. - There's nothing yet to indicate that touching Ando longer would amplify an ability more. Perhaps it just makes the amplification last longer. - He would have to absorb many abilities that can have explosive properties. That many people with that type of ability in one location is not likely. + Not necessarily. He would just need too much of something; in this case that would be abilities. Power a light bulb with a nuclear powerplant and it goes boom. - It seems unlikely that Peter absorbing many abilities with non-explosive properties at once would cause him to destroy the world. E.g., if Peter were to absorb the abilities of 1000 people with an ability like lie detection simultaneously, it seems unlikely that Peter would explode and destroy the entire Earth. A lot of damage could occur if he absorbed some more potent abilities, but still unlikely to destroy the world.
If this power is used on space-time manipulation, it would cause time to stop completely for the user, causing them to die.	None.	• When users of space-time manipulation "stop" time, they actually do not stop it completely. According to the writers, they slow it down to a very tiny fraction of a nanosecond. + This would possibly explain why Hiro was killed in the future. + Given the nature of time travel and teleportation, it seems unlikely that they could be amplified. Therefore, the ability to freeze time must be the one that is amplified.