Talk:Hiro Nakamura (explosion future)

5 years in the future

• I read somewhere in an interview just recently with Masi Oka that "Future Hiro" was from about 5 years in the future. If anyone can find that article we can add it as a reference.
  • Reference added to article. (Admin 15:19, 4 November 2006 (EST))

Future Hiro on Portal Pages

Since Future Hiro has his own page and is listed as a separate character, should he at least go on the portal pages? I think he would fit perfectly as a minor character. Objections? - RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 23:59, 4 January 2007 (EST)

Change Name

Really, isn't "Future Hiro" too ambiguous? I mean, there's Hiro 5 weeks in the future, then there's Hiro 6 months in the past who went there from what is then the future, then there may yet be other cases of Hiro travelling from the present to the past as a future Hiro, then there's the one who told Peter to save the cheerleader. I say we change this one's name to "Soul Patch Hiro." Who's with me?--E rowe 18:53, 2 February 2007 (EST)

Well, actually, the article is "Hiro Nakamura (future)", which is a little easier than "Hiro Nakamura (5 years in the future)". I think it's pretty clear that this is referring to the one Hiro that is really in the future. ... But "Soul Patch Hiro" sounds pretty cool. So do "Ponytail Hiro" and "When Did He Learn to Speak With Such a Clear Accent? Hiro". — Groundhog Day Ryan (talk) 19:19, 2 February 2007 (EST)

Fair enough. And nice touch with the Groundhog Day bit.--E rowe 19:22, 2 February 2007 (EST)

Why?

I had a question that turned into too many words. It's too big to put here so I put it (temporarily) over at my Userpage but would like to know where it goes or what to do with it or whether or not I'm full of it. Short-form: Why would Future Hiro have motive to go back in time and change events as he knows it, knowing it would destroy future as he knows it? -- ZachsMind 19:57, 9 February 2007 (EST)

• Okay. Some two and a half months later we get the answer. Bleargh. With the graphic novel String Theory we can see that the writers are in fact playing with the Many Worlds Theory of Quantum Mechanics. This means that the Hiro that we know, 'present Hiro,' will now never turn into the Future Hiro that we saw near the beginning of the series. When Future Hiro went back in time to tell Peter to save Claire, Hiro altered history, but not his own. He instead created an alternate reality which may or may not be any better than his own. Future Hiro's reality will not cease to exist. There's simply now another branch on a temporal tree. -- ZachsMind 23:06, 24 April 2007 (EDT)
  • There may be a bit more to it than that. While the explosion still happened in FH's timeline, it was originally caused by Sylar ... now it may have been caused by Peter instead. It may be the same timeline, but it could be self-correcting somehow (which is weird, but kind of fits with all the fate/destiny elements of the show). Or it may be correctable, and merely the case that an unforeseen ripple in the timeline caused the explosion to still occur. I suppose we'll find out more next week.--Hardvice (talk) 13:34, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
    • The impression I get is that Future Hiro is trying to alter his own history. Yes, it will destroy the world he knows, but he wants to destroy the world he knows in favor of a better one in which evolved humans aren't persecuted. Unfortunately, he seems to be unable to create the causality paradox that would be required: the changes that he can make can never leave him without a reason to go back in time, so history always adjusts to leave him in the same dystopian US. "Present" Hiro may be able to change Future Hiro's history, though, since he will be changing his own future, not his past. --Ted C 13:49, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
      • Exactly! Both Future Hiro and present Hiro can make and have made some changes in the past (Charlie's birthday photo, Peter exploding instead of Sylar exploding), but never enough to cause a causality paradox.--Hardvice (talk) 15:18, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
        • And it seems that the only way to change something is moving backwards in time. But excellent point Ted about Hiro being able to change Future Hiro's past since it's his future. I think in String Theory FHiro mentions that he cannot change his own past, but he can change someone else's (such as Peter saving Claire). --Bob 16:05, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
          • I believe Future Hiro is in the same situation as Future Trunks from Dragon Ball Z. Future Trunks time travels in an attempt to change the past and save humanity. But little does he know, he is actually traveling to an alternate timeline (something like a parallel universe). When Future Trunks returns home, he notices that nothing has changed and everything is still destroyed (the exact same thing happened to Future Hiro). He does not realize what is going on until he visits the main timeline for the second time. He learns that the two timelines are completely different and that he cannot save his own timeline, but he can save another--our familiar timeline.
            • Yeah that's what I believe too. Saving his own timeline would have him no existing as he exists and it would be the same paradox as killing your "young parent's". How could he have been in the past to save it if the past doesn't need to be saved anymore ? Hum... My head hurt! But the DBZ thing is the right thing for me! -- FrenchFlo (talk)        16:20, 25 April 2007 (EDT)