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Theory	Citations	Notes
The Exposed Future is not avoidable this time.	None.	+ Future Peter has changed too much in the past, unlike Future Hiro and thus made it impossible to correct everything. - Hiro and Peter have been able to change the past before. • Maybe they will realize that every time they change the future the next one is worse.
Noah Gray is the child of Sylar and Elle Bishop.	None.	+ Sylar and Elle could bond later over having problems dealing with their powers.
Noah Gray's mother is Sandra Bennet.	None.	+ The Grays are living at the Bennet house in Costa Verde. + Maybe Noah Bennet dies and Sandra discovers that she was pregnant and later dies in child birth.
Noah Bennet is killed by Knox.	None.	+ Noah and Sylar were hunting down Knox in present time. - Why would Claire be allied with her father's killer? + Clair specifically stated that Sylar took everything from her. She might not believe that Knox did it, but instead may be blaming Sylar for it.
Peter is the source of the explosion.	Peter has already exploded once in How to Stop an Exploding Man.	+ Peter absorbs lots of powers and being part of an army of powered people might overload him. + Peter has been directly tied to three bad futures: Dark Future, Outbreak, and Exposed Future. - Peter has lost all of his powers. + Peter might be able to take his powers back from Arthur.
Peter is a catalyst for time's rifts.	All the dark futures have been indirectly Peter's fault.	+ In the Dark Future, Peter is set to explode (How to Stop an Exploding Man). + In the Outbreak Future, Peter assisted Adam in releasing the virus (Powerless). + Future Peter's interference with the past (The Butterfly Effect) seems to have caused the Exposed future.
The Exposed Future is going to happen anyway, no matter how many heroes try to stop it, and even because they are trying to stop it.	None.	+ After Hiro watched his death by the hands of Future Ando, he started acting coldly with Present Ando. Because of that, the two of them almost ended their partnership, which could be one of the reasons which led Future Ando into killing Future Hiro. + After Sylar's attack, a consequence of Future Peter's actions to stop the Exposed Future, Claire starts to search for answers, and she's getting very close to Pinehearst. Future Claire was a Pinehearst agent. + After seeing Sylar in her dream, Angela brought him to the Company and led him to believe he could be a better man. Future Sylar was a normal guy trying to control his dangerous ability. + Sylar's attack to the Company, a consequence of Future Peter's actions to stop the Exposed Future, ended up with the escape of several evolved humans of Level 5, Knox among them. Afterwards, Knox started working at Pinehearst. Future Knox worked for Pinehearst.