Sylar (explosion future)

Sylar
Portrayed by	Zachary Quinto, Adrian Pasdar (as Nathan Petrelli)
First appearance	Five Years Gone
In-story stats
Known abilities	Intuitive aptitude Known acquired abilities: Telekinesis, Trevor's ability, Freezing, Enhanced memory, Melting, Enhanced hearing, Illusion, Flight, Phasing, Rapid cell regeneration
Formal name	Gabriel Gray
Alias	Nathan Petrelli
Gender
Home	Washington, DC
Residence	White House
Occupation	President of the United States
Parents	Biological parents: Samson Gray, Unnamed mother (deceased) Adoptive parents: Martin Gray, Virginia Gray

Sylar is an evolved human who is impersonating U.S. President Nathan Petrelli in 2011.

Character History

Five Years Gone

Believed to have died in the explosion as well as caused it (in truth, it was Peter Petrelli), Sylar actually survived, killed Nathan Petrelli at an unknown point and impersonated him using the power of illusion, acquired from Candice Willmer. Consequently, Sylar is the President of the United States in 2011. As President, he has enacted a policy strictly monitoring and controlling the activities of evolved humans and uses Homeland Security to enforce it.

Sylar, having acquired many powers over the years, no longer finds any point in getting new ones. Instead, he initiates a plan to eradicate all evolved humans with his power as president, wanting to eliminate the competition. However, there are two particular evolved humans that he wants to handle personally: Peter, and Claire Bennet. As Nathan, Sylar meets with Claire at the Petrelli Mansion. Claire, feeling spite for her father and his actions, tries to leave, but Sylar prevents her with his telekinesis. He proceeds to kill her and acquire her power, seeing hers as the last one he needs, and he expresses great pleasure in finally getting the chance after his failure in Homecoming.

During a ceremony commemorating the explosion, Sylar learns from Matt that Peter is trying to free Hiro so he can change the "past", and the Haitian is down. Sylar immediately flies to the Homeland Security holding facility, shocking all those at the ceremony. At the facility, Sylar phases through the door Peter was using to hold off his enemies, presumably having acquired the power from D.L. Hawkins. With Peter separated from the others as well as realizing that the Nathan before him is not his brother, Sylar reveals his true form. The two rivals then face each other in an epic showdown, the outcome of which is not known.

Evolved Human Abilities

Sylar's original power is intuitive aptitude — a superhuman ability to determine exactly how things work.

Sylar appears to have used his innate power to discover how to take the superpowers of other evolved humans. The exact mechanism by which Sylar gains these powers is not at present known; however, he believes that Chandra Suresh is correct that the abilities are based in the brain, and several of Sylar's victims have had their skulls opened and brains removed.

Known Acquired Powers

By 2011 in the "explosion future," Sylar has acquired additional powers. His known powers at this time are:

• Telekinesis (One Giant Leap) from Brian Davis (Six Months Ago)
• Shattering from Trevor Zeitlan (Villains)
• Freezing (Don't Look Back) from James Walker (Behind the Eclipse)
• Enhanced memory from Charlie Andrews (Seven Minutes to Midnight)
• Melting from Zane Taylor (Run!)
• Enhanced hearing from Dale Smither (Unexpected)
• Precognition from Isaac Mendez (Don't Look Back)
• Illusion from Candice Willmer (Five Years Gone)
• Flight from Nathan Petrelli (Five Years Gone)
• Phasing (Five Years Gone) from D.L. Hawkins (Behind the Eclipse)
• Rapid cellular regeneration from Claire Bennet (Five Years Gone)

Memorable Quotes

"Let's be honest. I can fly. I'm hardly dangerous."

- Sylar (as Nathan, to Mohinder) (Five Years Gone)

"Brother versus brother. It's almost biblical."

- Sylar (as Nathan, to Peter) (Five Years Gone)

"My brother can't walk through walls. Who are you?"

"An old friend. The guy they blamed for blowing up New York, but you and I know the real story, don't we, Pete?"

- Peter, Sylar (Five Years Gone)

"When I killed Nathan, he had already turned against his own kind."

- Sylar (to Peter) (Five Years Gone)

Notes

• In an interview, Aron Coleite and Joe Pokaski confirm that Sylar's phasing ability comes from D.L. Hawkins, who was brought to Mr. Bennet by Hiro Nakamura and subsequently turned over to Matt Parkman as a "dangerous" evolved human.
• This article depicts the future Sylar resulting from Hiro telling Peter to "save the cheerleader". In String Theory, Hiro discusses the previous timeline that existed before he went back in time to contact Peter. In that timeline, Hiro stabbed Sylar, but Sylar regenerated, and Hiro was unable to prevent him from exploding.
• In the present-day timeline, Sylar did not acquire Isaac's power of precognition until after Hiro and Ando had been transported to the Explosion Future (.07%, Parasite). Since Future Sylar does not make use of Isaac's power, it is impossible to confirm whether or not Isaac was killed and his power taken in the Explosion Future timeline as well.
• In The Hard Part, Ando asks if Hiro wondered where Future Ando was when they visited the future and, using the final issue of Isaac's comic book as evidence, tells him that Future Sylar had killed him.

Fan Theories

Please refer to Theory:Sylar (explosion future) for fan-created theories and other speculation.

See Also

• For Sylar's history in the present, see Sylar.
• For Sylar's history in the "exposed future," see Gabriel Gray (exposed future).
• For articles related to Sylar, see Related Articles:Sylar.

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