Theories:People

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The following are all of the published and fan theories that exist for characters on Heroes.

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Bennet, Mr.

Theory	Citations	Notes
Mr. Bennet's first name is something that forms the initials "HRG".	None	• Tim Kring's original script for the pilot listed this character's name only as "H.R.G." — standing for Horn-Rimmed Glasses.
Mr. Bennet's full name is Benjamin Bennet.	None	+ In an interview it was stated that Mr. Bennet's first name was biblical. + Alliteration is also a common comic book concept. • Examples: Peter Petrelli, Gabriel Gray, Corinthian Casino.

Bennet's Boss

Theory	Citations	Notes
Mr. Bennet's boss is Mr. Linderman.	None	+ Linderman is connected to most of the other characters in some way. + Mr. Bennet and the Haitian were able to get into Nathan's hotel room easily and the casino staff were rather blasé about a guest disappearing from their room.
Mr. Bennet's boss is Mr. Nakamura.	Kaito Nakamura is affiliated with the Company, and is at least higher up in the organization. He was the one who gave Claire to Mr. Bennet to raise. (Company Man)	• Nakamura runs a large corporation.
Mr. Bennet's boss is someone in the Deveaux Society.	None	• Relatively little is known about the Deveaux Society. + Claude, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Nakamura and Thompson meet to hand over Claire on the Deveaux rooftop (Company Man).

Bennet, Sandra

Theory	Citations	Notes
Sandra's condition is caused by repeatedly being subjected to The Haitian's power. If her health continues to degenerate, Mr. Bennet will eventually be discovered and forced to reveal the truth about his organization.	Sandra looks visibly ill when she returns from the doctor (Run!). She further shows evidence of unexplained brain hemorrhaging. (Unexpected).	Sandra's memory of Claire and Mr. Muggles is temporarily erased (Unexpected). Events in Company Man corroborate this theory. Mr. Bennet considers himself responsible for her illness.
Sandra's condition was caused by the blow to the head that she suffered from Sylar's attack or another blow that the Haitian had erased from her memory so she did not seek appropriate medical treatment.	The doctor reviewing Sandra's case to Claire asks if she has been battered or suffered a serious blow. (Run!)	As Sylar approaches Sandra to finish her off, he unexpectedly pauses (Distractions). He possibly saw what was "broken" and was distracted.

Dallas

Theory	Citations	Notes
Dallas is Mr. Petrelli	None	In the note that Dallas reads on the boat, it says "Our son...took his first steps yesterday." Because this is 1968, that would make the son about 38-39 years old, which is the approximate age of Nathan. Nathan also was a soldier, and the two characters have a physical resemblance. Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination
Dallas is Mr. Linderman	None
Dallas is the founder of the Company--possibly Thompson.	None
Dallas went to work for the Company after he saw Austin heal him.	None
Dallas has a power related with probability.	None	He kept winning in the card games.
Dallas does not have a power.	None	He seems like a "normal" guy. His reaction to Austin's display of power seems to indicate he has no experience of such things (though he may just not have manifested yet.)
Dallas is Nathan's uncle.	None	See the two pictures above or click here and here.
Dallas is Linderman's brother.	None	They have many similarities.

Deveaux, Charles

Theory	Citations	Notes
Charles has a power similar to Sanjog's, like a sort of "spirit guide".	Peter had a dream about Charles around the same time Charles died. (Nothing to Hide)	Peter's dream was most likely his power of empathy in action; he connected with Charles' feelings and emotions.
Charles had the power of astral projection.	None	Charles was in a coma for an extended period and in some depictions, "astral travelers" become unconscious as their mind travels elsewhere. Charles also said that while asleep he had been flying around the world and seeing things happening. The accounts of those who claim to have experienced astral projection are very similar to this description.
Charles Deveaux was an agent of the Company.	Several agents of the Company meet on his rooftop in a flashback. (Company Man)	Mr. Bennet later recognizes the rooftop of the Deveaux building in one of Isaac's painting, indicating that he knew of the building and had been there before. (Unexpected). Claude also would be able to hide in plain sight (so to speak) while he was up there, since the last place the Company would look for him is right under their noses.
Charles was a member of a disbanded group that helped evolved humans.	None	There was possibly a group of humans who helped evolved humans. Other members could have been Linderman and Thompson. When they disbanded, they created their own groups: the Linderman Group, The Company, and The Deveaux Society.

Jumpsuit

Theory	Citations	Notes
The Exterminator works for Mr. Bennet, and his appearance was a ruse for Mohinder to meet, and trust, Eden.	Eden was planted by Mr. Bennet, and the gun the exterminator uses is the same style as the weapon Eden attempted to use on Sylar. (Don't Look Back)

Linderman, Mr.

Theory	Citations	Notes
Linderman is Austin.	None	In a segment of Ask Ausiello, when asked what powers Mr. Linderman has, he didn't directly answer. He instead mentions Ben Hawkins, the protagonist on the show Carnivàle. On the show, Ben Hawkins was knows as the "Avatar of Light" and he had the power to heal other individuals.
Linderman will eventually play a bigger part in the series.	He is already connected to most of the other characters.
Linderman may be funding the Company, or is Mr. Bennet's boss.	Mr. Bennet and the Haitian are easily able to access Nathan's room in Linderman's casino. (Collision)	Linderman has money, and is connected to most of the characters. His interest in Isaac Mendez's paintings may indicate his knowledge of their significance and of the existence of superhuman powers.
Linderman is an evolved human.	None	Linderman appears to be a key villain in the series, who already has somewhat sinister connections to most of the characters. Linderman collects items that have the symbol such as Hiro's sword. He also collects paintings by Isaac Mendez which may hint that he has a heightened level of awareness such as omniscience but no precognitive powers himself. Since Mr. Linderman predicts almost the exact path that will lead Nathan to the White House, he may have some kind of heightened awareness. Linderman seems without fear after Nathan points a pistol at him. A villainous superhuman would be an appropriate enemy.
Linderman is Nathan and Peter Petrelli's actual father.	None	Nathan's campaign is funded by Linderman. Linderman was an associate of Mr. Petrelli, Nathan and Peter's supposed father. Linderman appears to know a lot about enhanced humans. Nathan and Peter, being siblings, may have inherited their powers from a parent. Angela Petrelli does not appear to have any powers. However, there is no hard evidence that Linderman has powers.
Mr. Linderman is a shapeshifter.	None	Linderman may have been Sylar's cockroach and Mohinder the lizard. He may also have shape shifted into Hiro's dad to trick him. And if a live dinosaur is to battle Hiro, it could be Linderman.
Mr. Linderman can manipulate probability.	None	Linderman owns casinos, a very lucrative business for someone who may have the ability to manipulate probability. He told Nathan Petrelli that "a series of fluke circumstances" would place him in the White House; a statement that suggests probability will be in both their favors if Nathan agrees to Linderman's plan. If Linderman were able to see the future, then he would have no need for Isaac Mendez's paintings. He may be gathering intelligence about Nathan and his abilities and connections through the paintings.
Linderman has powers and he is recruiting to have world domination.	None	Maybe Mr. Bennet works for him and captures evolved humans to monitor them until needed.
Linderman is aware that Isaac paints the future. He collects the paintings to further his own agenda. He buys all the paintings so as not to draw attention to the ones that really interest him, or so that people don't realize that he can paint the future.	Simone states that Linderman buys all of Isaac's paintings that he can. (Godsend)	He may also be aware that the sword has special properties.
Linderman has no powers.	None	Linderman is a powerful character; having no powers would be an interesting dichotomy.
Linderman is Claude's father.	None	Both characters have British accents. Fathers having and protecting children with abilities is a recurring theme.
Linderman wants Nathan to become president so that when people having evolutionary enhancements becomes mainstream knowledge, the major power will not be inclined to capture, kill, or otherwise control them.	None	Linderman has a lot of interest in people with abilities. On several occasions, Nathan has spoken on how his natural reaction to people with abilities (were he not one of them) would be to lock them up and study them. He is against going public about the evolution of powers for fear of this very reaction.
Linderman is either the embodiment of the evolved humans, or the embodiment of the universe. This is also known as omnipresence.	None	He tells Nathan that if Nathan kills Mr. Linderman, then he will also die. He also may have known about some of the evolved humans before they knew about their own power. However, it's likely that Mr. Linderman merely meant that Nathan would have a hard time surviving the 754 members of his security team.

Masahashi, Ando

Theory	Citations	Notes
Ando has the power to focus or amplify other people's powers.	None	Every time Hiro uses his powers near Ando, Hiro is able to do what he wants. When Hiro is not near Ando his powers are unpredictable. Also, when Isaac was around Ando, he was able to paint the future successfully without drugs. - When Hiro attempts to go back in time and save Charlie (Seven Minutes to Midnight), he moves back far further than the day he intended to, despite his proximity to Ando. If Ando's ability is just developing it might explain this though, or that Ando did not want Hiro to save Charlie. Alternatively, Hiro's power may have been amplified too much. - Ando is next to Hiro at the Museum of Natural History, and Hiro is only able to slow time, not completely stop it (Godsend). Hiro's powers were very weak, and perhaps slowing time was the peak of his abilities at that moment.
Ando has some kind of power involving the control of objects in motion.	Ando is nearby when the bullet from Hope's gun stops and then goes back into the barrel, causing it to "backfire". (Unexpected)	- Hiro was also near the gun, and was actively concentrating, and has reversed time in the past. (Genesis) - Ando has shown no other examples of using any powers. - Ando told Peter that he does not have any powers. (Homecoming)
Ando has the ability to speak the future.	None	There are many instances where Ando's offhand utterances later turn out to be true. In a recent episode, he says that he and Hiro need to find hope, only to meet a woman named Hope moments later. This observation may simply be a device the writers have used to play up the need for Ando's character since Hiro learned English, or, more likely, to play up Hiro's quest for destiny.

Nakamura, Kaito

Theory	Citations	Notes
Mr. Nakamura has powers.	None	The Petrellis', Micah Sanders's and Claire Bennet's abilities have been inherited. If this is consistent, Mr. Nakamura also has powers.
Mr. Nakamura is the head of the Company.	He seems to have incredible sway over other members of the Company (Company Man). He also is known to have significant resources at his disposal, given how easily he monitors and abducts Hiro and Ando (Distractions).	Some members of the Company speak Japanese, possibly having learned the language at the orders Mr. Nakamura.
Mr. Nakamura has been hiding Hiro from the Company.	Mr. Nakamura tells Mr. Bennet he will have to turn over Claire when and if she manifests a power. (Company Man)	Mr. Nakamura has not turned over Hiro to the Company. It is possible Mr. Nakamura does not know that Hiro has powers. Hiro himself didn't know he had powers until recently.
Mr. Nakamura's organization is a competitor to Linderman's organization.	None	Mr. Nakamura's organization is powerful and well funded. Linderman's people act independently of the Company, and no one associated with Linderman has the tracking marks.

Nakamura, Kimiko

Theory	Citations	Notes
Kimiko has powers.	None	If Micah and Claire Bennet inherited thier powers, then it makes sense that all the Nakamuras also have powers.

Parkman, Janice

Theory	Citations	Notes
The father of Janice's baby is not Matt.	Janice has been having an affair with Tom McHenry. (Seven Minutes to Midnight)	Janice and Matt have been having many marital problems. The time when she discovered she was pregnant could fit together with the time when she was sleeping with Tom. Also, Janice always seems to be very tense when Matt is around and when he is reading her thoughts, although that could be she is just busy censoring her thoughts for privacy. On the other hand, she specifically requested that he read her mind about the baby rather than simply telling him about it, which could be read as evidence that she at least believes the baby to be Matt's.
Nathan is the father of Janice's baby.	None
The father of Janice's baby is neither Matt nor Tom.	None	Matt and Tom look nothing alike. She seems to have a thing for very dissimilar men.

Petrelli, Angela

Theory	Citations	Notes
Angela knows Claude.	Angela is caught shoplifting socks (Genesis). Her son Peter meets a man who uses invisibility to sort of frame him for purse snatching (Distractions).	Claude has behaved as if he encountered people like Peter before — even helped them understand their powers. Perhaps those people include Angela and/or Peter's father.
Angela Petrelli has powers.	Both the Petrelli boys have super powers and Claire has powers because her father Nathan Petrelli and mother have super powers.	If there is a link between the mother and the passing on of the abilities, it is possible, since all mitochondrial DNA comes from the mother, that this is the key to expressed abilities.
Angela Petrelli is an agent of the Company, who was partnered with Mr. Petrelli.	We have seen Claire handed off to be with surrogate parents until she manifests, it is possible that Peter and Nathan were given to the care of Angela and Mr. Petrelli in the same manner.	She knows the Haitian.
She and the Haitian are working for an organization against the Company, which is a powerful ancient/ancestral organization that has existed for ages.	The Haitian wears the "Godsend" symbol around his neck, which he has been wearing since before he met Mr. Bennet (Company Man). Further, the Haitian does not comply with Mr. Bennet's order to make Claire forget In (Fallout).	The Haitian clearly says he answers to someone outside the Company, whose orders supersede Bennet's (Company Man). It can be alleged that only an extremely powerful organization can supersede the Company. The person whose orders supersede Bennet's is Angela Petrelli (Parasite). Not only does she know Claire's name, but also that she is Nathan's daughter. - Though he is in an alliance with Angela, he does not clearly indicate that she is outside the Company. Angela goes through great lengths to protect Claire by keeping her away for her biological family.

Petrelli, Monty and Simon

Theory	Citations	Notes
It is possible that Monty and Simon might have powers inherited from Nathan.	Micah is a second-generation evolved human, as is Claire Bennet. Nathan and Peter are evolved siblings.	Molly Walker, the daughter of an evolved human, has not yet demonstrated any superhuman ability, although references by Hiro in Heroes 360 suggest that Molly Walker is more important than she seems. Children of evolved parents tend to exhibit their powers earlier.

Petrelli, Mr.

Theory	Citations	Notes
It is possible that Mr. Petrelli had powers.	101}})
Mr. Petrelli is not dead, but in hiding from Mr. Linderman, possibly as a part of the Witness Protection Program. He faked a suicide, possibly with the help of Nathan to protect his wife and family and so not to be put into a position either against his son or against Mr. Linderman.	Peter did not sense his own fathers passing, like Charles Deveaux's or Nathan's accident. Their mother stated that Nathan was the one who found his father dead.((Genesis), (Six Months Ago)	Peter's not sensing his father's death could be explained by his powers just developing or lack of emotional contact with his father; however, since Peter's father supposedly committed suicide after Nathan's accident, he had already experienced his first vision. - This theory requires that nobody other than those in on the fake suicide had seen Mr. Petrelli's body, an unlikely scenario that has not been indicated in the show. - While Nathan tells Peter that their dad is dead from a heart attack, Angela Petrelli told Peter in the hospital not only that his father suffered delusions of grandeur and had committed suicide, but that he had attempted it several times before. If his death was faked, those previous attempts are no longer explained.
Linderman orchestrated Mr. Petrelli's death to look like a suicide.	None	Linderman clearly has enough power to do such a thing, and he benefited from Mr. Petrelli's demise in that Nathan switched from being about to sue him to being a "candidate in his pocket."
Mr. Petrelli, and possibly Angela, were agents of the Company and Mr. Petrelli was killed because he was about to reveal company secrets to the public.	None	Children with powers often seem to be placed in surrogate families until their powers manifest. It is possible that Mr. & Mrs. Petrelli were given Peter and Nathan and were told to raise them as their own until their powers manifested. Over this time, they had normal lives and grew to regard the AWI agents as their parents, and in order to continue his protection of Peter and Nathan, Mr. Petrelli was prepared to go public. He was killed by the the Company to prevent this. Mrs. Petrelli's behavior toward Peter after his semi-failed attempt to fly also can therefore be interpreted as her desire to keep her 'favorite' son from being exposed.

Suresh, Mohinder

Theory	Citations	Notes
Mohinder has lived in the US prior to Genesis.	Mohinder has a license to drive a taxi cab. To acquire such a license in the 36 hours the show leaves him is impossible. Therefore he must have acquired the license, or at least its prerequisites, at a previous date.	Mohinder may have been awarded the license illegally. Mohinder's license expires on a day that doesn't exist. It's probably a fake, but this could merely be a production gaffe.

Suresh, Shanti

Theory	Citations	Notes
Shanti Suresh had the ability to morph her body into stone.		When Mohinder remembered his father's reference to having a heart of stone in Homecoming, he tried to think of a connection between the phrase and the password to view the list on Chandra's computer, and put in Shanti.

Thompson

Theory	Citations	Notes
Thompson is the leader of the party that tries to apprehend Ted Sprague in the graphic novel ...exploding man, part 2.	The man's face, especially on page 4, bears a resemblance to that of Eric Roberts, who portrays Thompson. The GN also made a point to indicate that the leader escaped from the explosion that killed his team.
Thompson is Austin or Dallas.	None	He is about the right age.

Walker, Molly

Theory	Citations	Notes
Sylar believes Molly is an evolved human	None	It's not yet clear what Sylar's interest in Molly or her parents is. Sylar only murders to steal powers. Mohinder Suresh mentioned James Walker when listing those his father believed to have powers. Power heredity occurs frequently to other characters. Hiro Nakamura said in a coded email to Hana that he "found Molly Walker and will find others" as part of the Heroes 360 Experience. Sylar could have been taking Molly somewhere to take out her brain in seclusion and away from security.
Molly might have the ability to amplify powers, thus making her a highly desirable target for Sylar.	This would explain Matt's ability to hear thoughts from well outside the house, at a time when his powers were new and unfocused. (Don't Look Back)
Molly will be seen in episode 20, "String Theory"	None
Molly will be a character in Season 2.	None	The email response to those who figure out the puzzle on Hiro's blog specifically mentions Molly.

Walker, Mrs.

Theory	Citations	Notes
Mrs. Walker's first name is ambisexual.	Sylar has only directly killed women with ambisexual first names: Charlie, Jackie, and Dale.

Zach

Theory	Citations	Notes
Zach has an unknown ability.	None
Zach is killed because of Claire.	None
Zach has deeper feelings for Claire.	None	He seemed to care for her a great deal before his memories were erased.
Zach will be the one who eventually saves Claire, possibly with his theoretical ability.	None	Claire has already been saved once, by Peter Petrelli in Homecoming. When Claire asks if this fulfills the prophecy, The Haitian simply responds that she is saved "for now."
Zach is actually Claire's twin brother. He knows it, but she doesn't.	None	He won't date her and yet tries to be very close to her.
Zach is actually Claire's twin brother, but neither knows it yet.	None	They were childhood friends. He can't remember where he heard of Kermit Texas. He has had his memory erased once, and possibly more than once. When he and Claire start hanging out again, Mr. Bennet appears both suspicious and interested in Claire being nice to Zach. The newspaper article about the fire that supposedly killed Claire's real mom mentioned only a daughter. However, the whole accident, the alleged deaths, and the separation of the parties was clearly part of a conspiracy.
Zach "remembers" Kermit, TX because he and Claire had previously tried to find her parents and the Haitian took their memories	None